Erica micrandra Guthrie & Bolus

Erect, entirely glabrous, except for a slight down on the younger branches, about 1 ft. high; branches mostly straggling or subdivaricate, more rarely ascending or suberect, thinly and distinctly leafy, with naked internodes of from 1/2-1 in. long; leaves 3-nate, erect, incurved, never crowded, nor (except a few of the youngest) imbricate, linear-semiterete, obtuse or subacute, flat above, round-backed, faintly sulcate, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, corolline; pedicels slender, about 1 lin. long; bracts subapproximate, linear, about 1/2 lin. long; sepals adpressed, linear, acute, sulcate, foliaceous, sometimes coloured, reddish, about 3/4 lin. long, not reaching so high as the corolla-tube; corolla broad-cyathiform, flesh-coloured, about 1 1/2 lin. long, 2 1/4 lin. wide at the mouth when flattened down; segments continuous, subsemiovate, broadly-rounded, about equal to the tube; filaments capillary; anthers manifest, basifixed near the ventral margin, semiorbicular, ventral margin straight; cells subdistant and divaricate, about 1/100 in. long, aristate; pore 3/4 the length of the cell; connective at length bent downwards and projecting as an acute tooth in front; awns decurrent for less than 1/2 their length along the filament, then free, spreading, subulate, acuminate, the whole appendage nearly 2 1/2 times the length of the cells; style exserted, slender; stigma capitellate; ovary glabrous.