Erica kougabergensis H.A.Baker

Erect shrub, 0.4-0.5 m high. Leaves 3-nate, spreading, imbricate, 1.0-1.5 mm long, narrow-ovate, sulcate, open-backed, obtuse and like bracts and sepals, sparsely ciliate with gland-tipped hairs. Flowers terminal in umbels of 3-6, coralline; peduncles ± 2 mm long, curved, pubescent, with longer, gland-tipped hairs; bracts 1.5 mm long, narrowly obovate, sulcate. Calyx sepals ± 1.6 mm long, narrow-ovate, sulcate-keel-tipped. Corolla ± 2.5 mm long, globose-urceolate, dry, glabrous, rose; lobes 0.5 mm long, slightly spreading, obtuse. Filaments broad and somewhat curved; anthers exerted, ± 0.8 mm long, lateral, oblong, obtuse, somewhat curved dorsally, bipartite, roughly scabrid on margins; appendages broad-based and short, deciduous, rough. Ovary turbinate, glabrous; style long-exserted; stigma capitate. Flowering time Sept.-Nov.