Erica euryphylla R.C.Turner

Plants up to 300 mm tall, soft, laxly erect, single-stemmed reseeders. Branches: several, erect, lax main with short, lax, secondary branches; stems, younger and older with sparse, short, simple and gland-tipped hairs, no infrafoliar ridges, internodes ± 5-10(-14) mm long. Leaves 3-nate, ovate to obovate, 3-5 x 1-3 mm, flat, open-backed, green, abaxially with long, dense, woolly hairs, midrib slightly thickened especially in basal and median portions, adaxially with long, simple and gland-tipped hairs, margins slightly thickened abaxially with long, simple and gland-tipped hairs; petiole ± 0.8-1.0 mm long, yellowish green. Inflorescence: flowers (1-)3-nate in 1 to 5 whorls, umbel-like at ends of main and secondary branchlets; pedicel ± 3.5-5.0 mm long, rosy pink, with long, lanate, simple and gland-tipped hairs; bract partially recaulescent, basal to median, when basal leaf-like, ± 2-3 x 1-2 mm, open-backed, green, abaxially with long, woolly, simple hairs and adaxially with long, simple and gland-tipped hairs, when median narrowly obovate, ± 0.7 x 0.5 mm, abaxially glabrous, adaxially with long, simple and gland-tipped hairs and margins with long, simple and gland-tipped hairs; bracteoles 2, ± median, narrowly obovate, ± 0.8 mm long, slightly longer than bract when bract in median position, partially open-backed, abaxially glabrous, margins and adaxial surface with long, simple and gland-tipped hairs. Calyx 4-lobed; sepals partially fused at bases, adpressed, narrowly spathulate, ± 1.2-2.0 mm long, open-backed, pink, green apically, abaxially with short, woolly and long, simple and gland-tipped hairs, adaxially glabrous, margins slightly thickened with long, pilose hairs with red apical glands. Corolla 4-lobed, open cup-shaped to slightly urn-shaped, 3-4 x 2.5-3.5 mm, viscid, with sparse, simple and occasionally gland-tipped hairs, ± 0.1-0.4 mm long, pale to rosy pink, margins smooth, lobes erect, acute, entire. Stamens 8, free, included; filaments linear, ± 1.8 mm long, erect, with a slight apical bend, glabrous, white; anthers basifixed, bipartite, erect, muticous, occasionally with minute, aculeate, spreading appendage near apex of filament, glabrous, golden brown, thecae ± 0.8-1.0 mm long, pores apical, ovoid, ± 0.25-0.32 mm long; pollen in tetrads. Ovary 4-locular, ovoid, ± 1 mm long, viscid, green turning red, with short, dense, simple lanate and occasionally gland-tipped hairs; nectaries basal, yellowish green turning red; ovules ±16 per locule, placenta apical; style simple, ± 3 mm long, exserted, glabrous, pink; stigma capitellate, reddish purple. Fruit a dehiscent capsule, ± 1 mm long, ovoid, pale brown to cream-coloured with short, lanate hairs, valves spreading to ± 45°, thin, brittle, septa ± totally on valve. Seeds ellipsoid, ± 0.4 mm long; testa smooth, pale creamish brown, cells subequal to slightly elongate, 50-70 x 20-40 µm, anticlinal walls slightly thickened, unevenly undulate, inner periclinal walls with numerous small pits.