Erica ostiaria Compton

An erect, much-branched, somewhat fastigiate shrub. Stems densely grey-plumose-pubescent. Leaves 3-nate, very minutely puberulous when young, quickly glabrescent, linear, obtuse, sulcate, 2-3 mm long, erecto-patent, imbricate. Flowers in small terminal and axillary clusters of 4-7. Pedicels plumose-pubescent, c. 3-4 mm long. Bracts approximate, narrow-elliptical, obtuse, sulcate, puberulous, the longest c. 1 mm long. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, puberulous, sulcate at the tips, c. 1.5 mm long. Corolla urceolate, slightly narrowed at the throat, minutely puberulous, pinkish white, c. 2 mm long x 2 mm wide, the lobes short, very obtuse, erect. Filaments slender, somewhat flexuous. Anthers exserted, dorsifixed, muticous, scabridulous, obtuse, c. 1 mm long, the pore small. Ovary globose-pubescent. Style slender with a few short hairs, slightly curved, 5 mm long. Stigma capitellate with four terminal protuberances, far-exserted.