7746.000 Radermachera Zoll. & Moritzi

Trees. Leaves opposite, 1-3 pinnately compound; leaflets petiolate, margins entire. Inflorescence terminal or lateral, paniculate or reduced almost to fascicles; bracts and bracteoles linear or leaf-like. Flowers: calyx campanulate; apex 5-lobed or truncate; corolla funnelform-campanulate or salverform; lobes rounded, spreading. Fruit a capsule, loculicidally dehiscent, long, terete. Seeds compressed, both ends with transparent wings, membranous.

Derivation of name: Named for Dutch amateur botanist, Jacob Cornelis Matthias Radermacher (1742-1783), bailiff of the city of Batavia and a correspondent of Linnaeus.

Worldwide: 16 species in tropical Asia.

Zimbabwe: 2 cultivated taxa.