Drummondita ericoides Harv.

Much branched shrub to 0.5 m high. Branchlets smooth, sparsely appressed-puberulous when young. Leaves subsessile, congested, ascending, slender and semi-terete, c. 8 mm long, obtuse with black apiculum, sulcate adaxially, sparsely woolly-ciliate when young otherwise glabrous. Stipules present when very young, minute, hair-like, reddish brown. Flowers solitary; pedicel thick, 1–1.5 mm long, fleshy; bracteoles basal, linear, c. 2 mm long, fleshy, caducous. Sepals ±equal, suborbicular, 3–4 mm long, glabrous, green but reddish brown with age, glandular-verrucose. Petals narrowly oblong, 10–15 mm long, keeled, white to yellow with green tips. Stamens: tube white; free portion of filaments violet-sericeous; anthers c. 3.5 mm long.

Grows on hills in grey loam over granite, laterite, or sandstone.