Erica albertyniae E.G.H.Oliv.

Compact to semi-spreading shrublets up to 250 mm tall, single-stemmed reseeder. Branches: numerous erect main branches with short lateral branchlets 2-15 mm long, internodes as long as or slightly longer than leaves, no infrafoliar ridges, pubescent with reflexed hairs and a few small glands, bark white flaking off irregularly. Leaves 3-nate, erect, adpressed, 1.8 x 1.0 mm, ovate, very rounded abaxially, subflattened adaxially, glabrous or puberulous, ciliate with a few small glands, narrowly sulcate; petiole 0.3 mm long, adpressed, glabrous, ciliate with hairs and a few small sessile glands. Inflorescence: flowers 3-nate in 4-6 whorls in a compact raceme, terminal on ends of main branches or short lateral branchlets 2-15 mm long, slightly nodding: pedicel short, 0.15 mm long, glabrescent; bract not recaulescent, lower ones in inflorescence leaf-like the upper smaller narrower and yellow bracteose, 0.7-1.5 x 0.2-0.8 mm, sparsely puberulous; bracteoles absent. Calyx 4-lobed, 1.5 x 1.0 mm, cyathiform, 4-angled, angles obtuse alternating with lobes, with main vein of lobes swollen to form a thickened minor ridge, sparsely puberulous with hairs mainly on angles and ridges, green to pink; lobes 1/3 length of calyx, triangular with rounded apex and wide apical sulcus. Corolla 4-lobed, 3.5 x 1.2 mm, tubular tapering to the base, smooth, pink; lobes 1/10 the length of corolla, rounded, erect. Stamens 4, free, exserted; filaments 4 mm long, elongate-linear, straight, glabrous, pale; anthers bilobed, basally attached, oblong, muticous; thecae 1 mm long, oblong-falcate, erect adpressed, with a few fine spicules on edges, reddish brown; pore 1/3 length of theca; pollen in monads. Ovary 2-locular, 1 mm long, ellipsoid flattened, subacute, glabrous, with distinct nectaries around base; ovules 1 per locule, pendulous, placenta apical; style thin, exserted, glabrous, up to 2x the length of corolla; stigma simple, truncate. Fruit indehiscent, ovoid complanate, glabrous; pericarp very thin, transparent, cellophane-like, with many crystals; seeds ellipsoid, testa very thin, cells ruminate, elongate with irregularly jigsawed anticlinal walls, without pits.