Erica pilaarkopensis H.A.Baker

Erect, woody shrublet to about 1 m high. Branches numerous, pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves 3-nate, 4-5 mm long, broadly linear, spreading and becoming squarrose and, except the younger, barely or not imbricate, variously sulcate, pubescent, ciliate with longish gland-tipped hairs. Flowers essentially terminal at the ends of numerous branchlets but, sometimes, apparently axillary and solitary in the leaf axils on the same plant; the terminal ones umbellate, the whole making a compact and showy raceme, calycine; peduncles 4-5 mm long pubescent, coloured; bracts basal, very small and inconspicuous. Sepals 1-5 mm long, adpressed, broad ovate to orbicular, minutely keel-tipped, mostly glabrous but with a few short hairs near the margins, long-ciliate, scarious, white to rose coloured. Corolla 3.0 mm long, broad obconical, dry, glabrous, dark rose; lobes 1.0 mm long, continuous, slightly spreading, shaped like the sepals and very conspicuous, often whitish and paler than the tube. Filaments ligulate, brown at the apex; anthers manifest 1.0 mm long, long, oblong cuneate, lateral, produced above the pore, scabrid, minutely awned; the awns adnate to the filament with small, free-spreading points. Ovary turbinate glabrous, green; style long-exserted; stigma peltate-capitate, small.