Erica ingeana E.G.H.Oliv.

Shrublet straggling, single-stemmed, decumbent to erect and compact, up to 300 mm tall. Branches 200-400 mm long, wiry, pilose and with scattered long gland-tipped hairs, glands dark red, internodes up to 20 mm long on flowering branches, with no infrafoliar ridges. Leaves 4-nate, suberect to slightly spreading, 2.0-2.5 mm long with petiole 0.4 mm long, ovate, sparsely pilose all over and ciliate with long gland-tipped hairs. Flowers in heads of 12(16) at the ends of main and lateral branches; pedicel 2 mm long, pubescent and with long gland-tipped hairs, glands dark red; bract remote to median, 2 mm long, ovate, pubescent and with somewhat longer gland-tipped hairs and even longer simple or forked hairs, red at base with green sulcate upper half; bracteoles like bract, 2 mm long. Calyx 4-partite, segments about 1.7 mm long, half the length of the corolla tube, leaflike, narrowly oblong, pubescent and with somewhat longer gland-tipped hairs and even longer simple or fork-tipped hairs mostly confined to margins. Corolla 4-lobed, pink, tube 3 mm long, narrowly ovoid, sparsely pilose, lobes 1.0-1.3 mm long, elliptic, obtuse, erect to spreading, papillate abaxially, papillate-crenulate. Stamens 8, free, included; filaments linear apically sigmoid, half the length of the corolla tube; anthers 0.6 mm long, sub-basally attached, thecae rectangular, glabrous, pore 2/3 length of theca, aristate, light brown, awns as long as the pore; pollen in tetrads. Ovary 4-locular with 14 ovules per locule, 9 mm long, subcylindric with obtuse to flattened apex and 8 external lobes, pubescent, apically hispid; style 2.0-2.5 mm long, glabrous; stigma simple, manifest. Fruit a dehiscent capsule with septa free to the base; seeds ovoid, reticulate with numerous small cells, yellow.