Perennial, soft-wooded shrubs, densely stellate-pubescent. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire or shallowly lobed; stipules linear, deciduous. Flowers bisexual, in axillary cymes or racemes; epicalyx of 8–10 lobes, fused for the greater part; calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, persistent but not much enlarged in fruit; petals 5, free; stamens numerous; style unbranched, locules 5, stigmas 5, capitate; ovules few per locule. Fruit a capsule dehiscing loculicidally and septicidally, thus finally apparently 10-segmented; seeds angular, wrinkled, glabrous.
2 species, 1 native each to South Africa and Australia.
Source:
Walsh, N.G. (1996). Radyera. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 334–334. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
