Erica hispiduloides E.G.H.Oliv.

Shrub erect, densely branched, 0.3-1.2 m tall. Branches puberulous and with very long soft gland-tipped, rarely eglandular hairs and shorter gland-tipped hairs intermixed, with no infrafoliar ridges, bark splitting irregularly. Leaves 3-nate, 2.0-3.0 x 0.6 mm, elliptic-oblong, erect to spreading, subopen-backed with revolute rounded edges, puberulous, edged with a few very long stout gland-tipped hairs and one apically; petiole ± 0.5 mm long, ciliate. Flowers 3-nate at ends of short lateral branchlets, erect to spreading; pedicel 1-2 mm long, puberulous; bract submedian, 0.5-1.0 x 0.3-0.5 mm, narrowly elliptic, sulcate or occasionally esulcate, puberulous, with large apical gland; bracteoles opposite, median, similar to bract but slightly smaller. Calyx 4-lobed almost to base, 0.7-1.5 mm long, cyathiform, green to pink, lobes ovate, acute, sparsely puberulous, edged with large glands. Corolla 4-lobed, 1.5 x 2.0-2.5 mm, cyathiform-urceolate, glabrous, pink, occasionally creamy yellow, lobes erect, broadly rounded, about quarter length of corolla. Stamens 8 included; filaments ± 0.5 mm long, oblong, slightly broadening to base with sigmoid bend below anther, glabrous; anther erect, muticous, thecae oblong-elliptic, 0.4 x 0.8 mm, glabrous; pore half length of theca; pollen in tetrads. Ovary 4-locular, 4-lobed, 0.5 x 0.9 mm, obovoid and emarginate, sparsely pilose, with no basal nectary glands, ovules 15-20 per locule, spreading to pendulous on a subapical placenta; style 0.3-1.0 mm long, glabrous; stigma broadly cyathiform. Capsule depressed globose, 1.0 x 1.2 mm, glabrous, yellowish brown, septa free from central axis; seeds ellipsoid, ± 0.4 mm long, elongate reticulate, golden brown.