Erica atherstonei Diels ex Guthrie & Bolus

A small, probably procumbent, creeping, branched shrub, a few inches high; branches flexuose, rather stout, the younger (as also the pedicels and margins of the sepals) densely covered with short white floccose hairs; leaves 3-nate, erect-spreading, crowded, imbricate, linear-lanceolate, concave, with a prominent mid-nerve above, convex and sulcate below, ciliate on the margin and on the dorsal reflexed edge, becoming glabrous and glossy, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; flowers both terminal and axillary, solitary at or near the ends of the branches; pedicels decurved, 2 1/2-4 lin. long; bracts remote, thick, very small; sepals narrow-lanceolate to oblong, subacute, upper margins recurved and thickened, foliaceous, subcoriaceous, ciliate, 1 1/2 lin. long, or more than half as long as the corolla; corolla tubular-campanulate to obconic, the middle of each petal strongly nerved, and hence appearing sub-tetragonous, minutely pulverulent, becoming glabrous, 1 3/4-2 1/4 lin. long, 1-1 1/4 lin. wide at the apex; limb erect; segments oblong, blunt, about 2/5 the length of the tube, at length splitting nearly to the base; anthers subexserted, narrow-oblong, nearly straight, scaberulous, nearly 3/4 lin. long, cristate at the base; pore nearly 1/2 the length of the cell; crests lanceolate, acuminate, dentate, curved, about 1/3 the length of the cells; style exserted, rather stout, decurved at the apex; stigma capitate; ovary pubescent.