Erica hexensis E.G.H.Oliv.

Shrub erect, compact up to 1 m tall. Branches erect with numerous soft small lateral branchlets, puberulous, some hairs up to 0.2 mm long and with long stouter long-forked hairs up to 0.5 mm long and occasional sessile red glands intermixed, older branches with more forked hairs, with no infrafoliar ridges, bark grey, splitting irregularly when older. Leaves 3-nate, 2.0 x 0.5 mm, oblong-elliptic, open-backed, sparsely long villous mainly towards margins, abaxially shortly hispid; petiole ± 0.5 mm long, sparsely long ciliate. Flowers 3-nate at ends of very short lateral branchlets, mostly facing upwards; pedicel ± 1.4 mm long, glabrous or occasionally with a few short hairs; bract and bracteoles median 0.4 and 0.3 mm long respectively, oblong not sulcate, glabrous sparsely ciliate with long hairs. Calyx 4-lobed, fused at base only, lobes 0.8 mm long, lanceolate, acute, sulcate in upper half, half as long as corolla, ciliate with long thin hairs and with some scattered on abaxial side. Corolla 4-lobed, 1.5 x 1.4 mm, cyathiform, glabrous, dusky red to pink, lobes obtuse, crenate-fimbriate, erect. Stamens 8 included; filaments 0.7 mm long, narrowly linear from a slightly broader base with a subsigmoid bend below anther, glabrous; anther just manifest, 0.8 x 0.4 mm, ovate, obtuse, erect, dorsally attached near base, muticous, very shortly strigose on adaxial edge; pore one third to half length of theca; pollen in tetrads. Ovary 4-locular, 4-lobed, 0.6 x 0.6 mm, broadly ellipsoid and slightly emarginate, finely papillate, with no nectary glands at base, ± 8 ovules per locule, subpendulous, placenta bulbous in upper half; style 0.5-1.0 mm long, slightly to much exserted, glabrous; stigma cyathiform, red. Fruit unknown.