Erica oligantha Guthrie & Bolus

Diffuse, twining amongst low shrubs, under 1 ft. high; branches slender, straggling, pubescent; leaves usually 3-nate (occasionally 4-nate on the main stem), spreading, not crowded, ovate to oblong in apparent outline according to the degree to which the margins are reflexed or revolute, open-backed or sulcate, pubescent and ciliate with long white hairs, some as long as the leaves, 1-1 1/2 lin. long; flowers usually terminal and solitary, occasionally 2-3-nate, very rarely axillary; pedicels 1/2-1 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals broad-ovate, viscid, pubescent, coloured, about 3/4 lin. long, margins reflexed; corolla oblate-spheroidal, pubescent, viscid, the summit slightly falling inwards, red, about 3/4 lin. long and wide; segments in full flower horizontally connivent, becoming more erect; filaments straight, dilating upwards; anthers exserted, sublateral, dorsifixed close to the base, oblong, but curved on the dorsal edge, minutely ciliolate, over 2/5 lin. long, muticous; pore 2/3 the length of the cell; style exserted, slender; stigma subsimple; ovary pallid, pubescent.