Erica limnophila E.G.H.Oliv.

Sprawling, tangled shrublets, ± 150 mm tall, 200-300 mm across, single-stemmed reseeder. Branches: thin delicate main branches (30-)50(-100) mm long with continuous apical vegetative growth; few secondary branches (10-)20(-30) mm long with continuous apical growth or subterminal inflorescence; with simple, short, spreading hairs and with or without short-stalked glands intermixed. Leaves 3-nate, often imbricate, subspreading to spreading, slightly recurved, elliptic-oblong, 2.5-3.4 x 0.8-1.0 mm, adaxially flattened, abaxially rounded, subacute, margin subacute, pilose with few, longer, stouter, gland-tipped hairs on abaxial surface and margins, sulcus slightly open revealing thick prominent main vein, and open basally; petiole 1.0-1.5 mm long, adpressed, glabrous, ciliate with short simple hairs and few, longer, gland-tipped hairs. Inflorescence: 3 flowers in single whorl terminal or subterminal below vegetative growth on main and secondary branches, central axis continuing growth; pedicel 1.5-2.0 mm long, pilose; bract partially recaulescent in middle of pedicel, lanceolate, ± 2.8 x 0.8 mm, with foliaceous upper half, coloured pinkish below, sulcate ± 1/3 of its length with prominent midvein, indumentum as in leaf; bracteoles 2, approximate to calyx, lanceolate, ± 2.8 x 0.6 mm, otherwise like bract. Calyx 4-partite; lobes not laterally imbricate, ovate-lanceolate, ± 3 x 1 mm, apex recurved, with green upper 2/3, coloured below, sulcus ± 1/3 length of sepal with prominent vein thickened in upper 1/3 adaxially, pilose, ciliate with long, stouter, gland-tipped hairs intermixed. Corolla 4-lobed, urceolate, 5.0-5.5 x 3.5-5.0 mm, pilose, pale pink; lobes erect, rounded to subacute, ± 1.5 x 1.2 mm, entire to suberose. Stamens 8, free, included; filaments linear-oblong, tapering towards apex, ± 3.0 x 0.2 mm, with apical S-bend, glabrous; anthers bilobed, subquadrate in adaxial view, dorsally attached near base, appendiculate; thecae erect, adpressed with diverging apices, ± 0.8 x 0.3 mm, lanceolate in lateral view, orange-brown, strigulose, appendages pendulous subspreading laterally ± 0.7 x 0.1 mm, minutely spiculate or with very short teeth; pore ± 1/4 length of theca; pollen in tetrads. Ovary 4-locular, globose, ±1 x 1 mm, emarginate, pilose, with large nectaries around base; ovules ± 15 per locule, spreading from placenta in upper half of locule; style ± 2.5 mm long, straight, glabrous; stigma included, capitellate. Fruit a dehiscent capsule, septa only on valve. Seeds immature but testa cells ± 30 x 50 µm, anticlinal walls undulate and periclinal walls pitted.