Erica magistrati E.G.H.Oliv.

Erect woody shrub 0.6-1.8 m tall. Branches densely puberulous, the older with many long spreading stouter gland-tipped hairs intermixed, without infrafoliar ridges, bark splitting irregularly with age. Leaves 3-nate, imbricate to spreading, 4.0 x 0.8 mm, oblong-elliptic, elliptic in section with rounded margins, slightly open-backed, apex subacute sometimes the younger ending in a long gland-tipped hair, the younger pubescent with adpressed hairs, becoming glabrous abaxially, with scattered short hairs, marginally rarely also with long stouter gland-tipped hairs; petiole ± 0.8 mm long, ciliolate. Flowers mainly 3-nate, terminal on short lateral branchlets 0.5-10.0 mm long, erect to slightly spreading; pedicel ± 3 mm long, softly puberulous; bract median to approximate, lanceolate, 2.0 x 0.6 mm, sulcate in upper half, puberulous, white; bracteoles opposite, just above the bract, like bract but smaller. Calyx 4-lobed very slightly fused at base, lobes 2.0 x 0.6 mm, ovate, acute, sulcate in upper third, puberulous and ciliolate, white. Corolla 4-lobed, 3.0 x 2.5 mm, urceolate to cyathiform, glabrous or very rarely with a few short hairs, lobes ± 0.5 mm long, rounded, erect to slightly reflexed. Stamens 8 included; filaments filiform, 2.5 x 0.5 mm, erect, subsigmoid below anther, glabrous; anthers erect, placed just above ovary, dorsally attached near base, appendiculate, thecae 2.5 mm long, narrowly ovate-oblong, glabrous, crests ± 0.6 mm long, slightly serrate, attached at top of filament, pore half length of theca; pollen in tetrads. Ovary 4-locular, 8-lobed, broadly obovate, emarginate, 2.2 x 2.2 mm, villous mainly in upper half and in lower half along lobe edges, with no nectary glands at base, 15-20 ovules per locule spreading from a rounded central placenta; style ± 2.5 mm long, straight, glabrous, exserted; stigma cyathiform with 4 central stigmatic papillae, glabrous. Fruit unknown.