Shrub, mostly tough and wiry with hairy branchlets. Leaves stalked or not, flat to concave. Flowers solitary, axillary, mostly in the leaf axils mostly towards the branch tips. Bracts grading towards the 5 sepals. Petals forming a tube. Stamens 5 with short fialments attached to the tube in the throat. Ovary with several ovules in each of 5 chambers. Placentation axile. Fruit a loculicidal capsule.

Seed or cuttings.

Filaments shorter than the anthers, the anthers attached to the filament in the centre.

40 species from Australia and New Zealand, Australia with 38 species from all states except WA and NT.

Source: Spencer, R. (1997). Epacridaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.