Erica pulchelliflora E.G.H.Oliv.

Small dense shrublets to 150 mm tall, single-stemmed reseeder. Branches: numerous short main branches with 2-3 short secondary flowering branchlets 5-10 mm long, subglabrous or with a few recurved hairs, no infrafoliar ridges, internodes about as long as leaves. Leaves 3-nate, erect, imbricate when young, 1.5 x 0.6 mm, ovate-elliptic, adaxially flat, abaxially obtuse, with mid-open sulcus, glabrous, sparsely ciliate and edged with a few sessile glands; petiole 0.2 x 0.2 mm, adpressed, glabrous, edged with a few short hairs and sessile glands. Inflorescence: flowers 3-nate in up to 5 whorls, in a condensed head-like raceme, terminal on main and secondary branches; pedicel minute, 0.1 mm long, glabrescent; bract non-recaulescent and leaf-like in basal whorl to partially recaulescent approximate to calyx and bracteose in upper whorls, 0.7-1.5 x 0.2-0.6 mm, oblong-ovate, glabrous with apical tuft of hairs; bracteoles absent. Calyx 4-lobed, tubular, 1.0 x 0.4 mm, acute-angular with angles alternating with lobes, with the slight grooves, in between shiny transparent, glabrous; lobes 1/5 the length of calyx, erect, triangular, apically broadly and very indistinctly sulcate but with puberulous patch, ciliate with long wavy hairs. Corolla 4-lobed, 2.5 x 1.0 mm, narrowly tubular within calyx and just beyond becoming infundibuliform, minutely colliculate, pink; lobes erect, 1/10 the length of corolla, broadly deltoid. Stamens 4, free, exserted; filaments 2.1 mm long, linear, straight; anthers basifixed, narrowly obovate, almost bipartite with divergent thecae in older anthers, muticous; thecae 0.8 x 0.2 mm, narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, dark brown, finely aculeate; pore 1/4 the length of theca; pollen in monads. Ovary 1-locular, 0.5 x 0.2 mm, asymmetrically ovoid, subacute, glabrous; ovule 1, pendulous, placenta apical; style 3 mm long, exserted, glabrous; stigma simple truncate. Fruit indehiscent, ellipsoid; pericarp very thin and cellophane-like, no crystals present; seed ellipsoid with very thin testa adhering to pericarp, cells elongate with jigsawed anticlinal walls, no pits.