Erica philippioides Compton

A small much-branched soft diffuse or spreading shrub. Stems slender, straight or flexuous, shortly pubescent. Leaves 3-nate, erecto-patent, linear, sulcate, obtuse, shortly pubescent, 4-5 mm long, 0.5 mm wide. Flowers minute, terminal, mostly 3-nate, clustered towards the ends of the branches. Pedicel, bracts, calyx and corolla puberulous. Pedicel 0.5 mm long. Bracts 2, remote, 0.2 mm long. Sepals connate at base, ovate, 0.5 mm long. Corolla campanulate, open-mouthed, white, 1.0 mm long, the lobes broadly ovate, obtuse, nearly as long as the tube. Filaments very short and slender. Anthers subcoherent round the style, smooth, bilobed, obtuse, muticous, 0.4 mm long. Ovary globose, minutely hispidulous. Style very short. Stigma peltate, manifest.