Erica aspalathoides Guthrie & Bolus ex Schltr.

Diffuse, very slender, weakly-trailing, almost herbaceous in appearance; branches spreading, about 1/4-1/3 lin. in diam. at their thickest part, 4-8 in. long, closely leafy, thinly hairy, red-brown; leaves 4-nate, squarrose or recurved, linear-setaceous, 1-2 lin. long, 1/8-1/6 lin. broad, longer than the internodes, with 2-3 obsolete teeth on either side, each tooth and the apex bearing a long fine white gland-tipped hair; flowers few; pedicels short, about 1/2-1 lin. long; bracts approximate, leaf-like and with similar white hairs, but pale brown coloured, 1 1/2 lin. long; sepals leaf-like, coloured like the bracts, and about as long, reaching to the top of the corolla; corolla cyathiform, slightly widened at the mouth, glabrous, dry (when dried, pale brown) 1 1/4 lin. long; segments erect, rounded, 1/3-1/2 the length of the tube; filaments capillary, dilated just below the anther; anthers semi-exserted, lateral, dorsifixed close to the base, narrow-oblong, very pale brown, less than 2/5 lin. long, aristate; pore about 1/3 the length of the cell; awns about 1/3 the length of the cell; style exserted, slender, bent; stigma small, capitellate; ovary puberulous.