Erica anemodes E.G.H.Oliv.

Compact erect shrublets, 200-500 mm tall, single-stemmed reseeder. Branches: densely and frequently branching with many main branches ± 20-30 mm long ending in an inflorescence, occasional secondary branches 2-10 mm long ending in an inflorescence; stems covered with dense short retrorse simple hairs, no infrafoliar ridges. Leaves 3-nate, slightly imbricate, erect to sub-spreading, elliptic-oblong, ± 4.2 x 1.0 mm, adaxially flattened, abaxialy rounded margins subacute, glabrous, minutely ciliate, when young with few, small, non-sticky glands on margins, narrowly sulcate, sulcus open at base; petiole ± 0.7 mm long, adpressed, adaxially puberulous, minutely ciliate. Inflorescence: 3 flowers in 1(2) whorls at ends of main and secondary branches; pedicel 3 mm long, curved, with dense, short, retrorse, simple hairs, occasionally a few plumose hairs intermixed; bract partially recaulescent in middle of pedicel, ovate to elliptic, ± 2 x 1 mm, acute, glabrous, margins with small non-sticky glands and basally short hairs, white, sulcus narrow in upper 1/4; bracteoles 2, just above bract, elliptic to obovate, ± 1.5 x 0.9 mm, obtuse to subacute, otherwise like bract. Calyx 4-partite; lobes ovate to elliptic, ± 2.0 x 1.3 mm, laterally imbricate, adpressed to corolla, apex subacute and cucullate, white, glabrous, margins with small, sessile, non-sticky glands and basally few short hairs, sulcus 1/3-1/4 length of sepal. Corolla 4-lobed, broadly campanulate, 2.5 x 2.5 mm, glabrous, white; lobes erect to spreading, ± 1/2 length of corolla, ± 1.3 x 1.3 mm, triangular subacute, entire. Stamens 8, free, included to manifest; filaments ± 2 mm long, linear-oblong, with strong apical S-bend, glabrous, white; anthers dorsifixed near base, bilobed, quadrate in adaxial view, appendiculate; thecae erect, adpressed, ± 1.1 x 0.6 mm, ellipsoid in lateral view, dark brown, aculeate on inner and adaxial margins, appendages pendulous, lanceolate, ± 0.5 x 0.2 mm, irregularly serrate and with few hairs, brown; pore ± 1/2 length of theca; pollen in tetrads. Ovary 4-locular, broadly ovoid to ellipsoid, 1.0 x 1.5 mm, obtuse, glabrous, with reduced nectaries around base; ovules ± 12 per locule, subpendulous from large placenta in upper half; style exserted, ± 2.3 mm long; stigma capitate-peltate, ± 0.7 mm across. Fruit a dehiscent capsule, broadly ovoid, ±1.1 x 1.8 mm, valves splitting almost to the base but only slightly spreading, septum ± 90% on the woody columella and 10% on valve. Seeds ovoid-ellipsoid, ± 0.7 x 0.5 mm, occasionally semi-angular, very shallowly reticulate, shiny, brown; testa not very hard, 70-100 x 50-70 µm, anticlinal walls straight to mostly slightly undulate, inner periclinal wall with numerous small pits.