Erica drakensbergensis Guthrie & Bolus

Erect shrub, mostly about 60 cm (2 ft) high, occasionally up to 1.8 m (6 ft). Branches erect or spreading, pallid, puberulous. Leaves 2-4 mm long, 3-to 4-nate, often varying on the same plant, mostly erect and imbricate, or sometimes shorter than the internodes, more rarely spreading, linear, semiterete, sulcate, glabrous, pallid. Flowers terminal, 3-to 6-nate; peduncles 2-4 mm long, straight or decurved, puberulous; bracts median, linear, small. Sepals 1-1.5 mm long, ovate to lanceolate, keel-tipped, acute or obtuse, ciliate, subscarious or subfoliaceous, mostly glabrous, sometimes pubescent. Corolla 2.5-4 mm long, suburceolate-cyathiform, not, or very slightly, constricted at the throat, glabrous, white; lobes about 1/3 the length of the tube, erect, broad, sometimes irregularly toothed. Anthers subexserted, rarely exserted, 0.8-1 mm long, sublateral, obliquely oblong or narrow-elliptical, sparsely ciliate on the front margins, appendiculate; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; awns 1/2-2/3 the length of the cell, curved, subulate, acuminate, ciliate. Ovary turbinate, glabrous; style exserted, sometimes decurved; stigma peltate-capitate.