Erica leptoclada Van Heurck & Müll.Arg.

Diffuse, procumbent, 3-10 in. high; branches glandular-hispid, slender; leaves 3-nate (rarely some 4-nate on the same branch), spreading, linear, linear-lanceolate or broad-lanceolate, acute, sulcate, hispid and ciliate with glandular hairs, 1 1/2 lin. long, margins revolute; flowers 3-nate, axillary towards the ends of the branches; pedicels very slender, about as long as the leaves; bracts remote, basal, foliaceous, hispid; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, foliaecous, hispid, gland-ciliate, distinctly cohering at the base, sometimes with obtuse sinuses, about 3/4 lin. long; corolla broadly funnel-shaped, expanded from a point below the middle, minutely puberulous, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; segments erect or spreading, broad and rounded, from 1/3 to 1/2 the length of the rest of the corolla; anthers included, dorsifixed just above the base, semiovate, dark-coloured, 1/3 lin. long, muticous; pore about 1/3 the length of the cell; style slender, exserted, often bent below the stigma; stigma capitellate; ovary glabrous.