Erica amalophylla E.G.H.Oliv. & I.M.Oliv.

Shrublets soft, semi-erect to procumbent, 70-12 x 6-36 mm, single-stemmed reseeders. Branches: few main branches 100-300 mm long, thin, weak, secondary branches few, ± 20-50 mm long; stems with scattered, long, simple hairs and longer, gland-tipped hairs, internodes (2-)5-10 mm long. Leaves 3-nate, spreading, elliptic, 4.5-7.0 x 2 mm, acute, flat and very thin, almost completely open-backed, margins slightly recurved, midrib thickening towards apex and tapering into external simple or sometimes gland-tipped seta, sparsely covered on both sides with long, thin, simple hairs and longer, gland-tipped hairs, margins with a few of same hairs; petiole ± 0.3 mm long, glabrous. Inflorescence: flowers 3-nate in 1-3 whorls, raceme-like towards apex of main and secondary branches; pedicel 6-15 mm long, with a few scattered, long, gland-tipped hairs; bract not recaulescent, identical to a leaf on stem; bracteoles 2, near base of pedicel, ± 3 x 0.9 mm, otherwise like a leaf. Calyx 4-partite; segments adpressed to corolla, ovate-elliptic, ± 2.5 x 1 mm, otherwise like a leaf. Corolla 4-lobed, cyathiform, ± 3.5 x 3.5 mm, thinly textured, white, sparsely hairy with thin, long hairs; lobes erect, broadly rounded, deltoid, ± 0.8 x 1.8 mm, entire. Stamens 8, free, included; filaments linear-oblong with slightly broader elliptic base, straight or with slight sigmoid bend below anther, glabrous; anthers bilobed, erect, dorsally attached ± 1/3 up the back, muticous; thecae adpressed with slightly spreading apical portion, yellow, smooth, pore ± 1/4-1/3 of theca; pollen shed in tetrads. Ovary 4-locular, broadly ovoid to broadly ellipsoid, ± 0.8 x l mm, emarginate, covered with numerous long, erect hairs, with nectaries around base; ovules ± 15 per locule, suberect from placenta the full length of columella; style included or just beyond corolla mouth, ± 2 mm long, glabrous; stigma subsimple truncate. Fruit a dehiscent capsule, valves splitting to base and opening up to 45°, smooth, septa only on valve. Seeds ellipsoid, ± 0.4 x 0.2 mm, smooth, orange; testa cells elongate, 60-100 x 20-22 ± µm, inner anticlinal walls thin, evenly broadly jigsawed, inner periclinal walls with medium-sized pits.