Erica vogelpoelii H.A.Baker

An erect, slender, glabrous shrub to 45 cm or so. Leaves 3-nate, 4 mm long, slightly spreading, imbricate, linear-subulate to narrow ovate, sulcate, acute, mucronate. Flowers terminal on short branchlets, mostly 3-nate, but also in clusters of 6 flowers or so; peduncles 5-6 mm long; bracts two, median, very small and insignificant, subsepaloid. Sepals 5 mm long, spreading, obovate, concave, with black keel tips, coloured as corolla, scarious, minutely and sparsely setose-ciliate. Corolla c. 8 mm long, narrow-ovoid-urceolate, dry, strong in texture, deep rose-coloured but white under the lower part of the sepals; lobes 2 mm long, widely spreading, broad ovate, acute, concolourous with corolla at first but discoloured after maturity. Filaments filiform; anthers included, less than 1 mm long, obliquely oval, lateral, scabridulous, black, cristate, pore about 1/2 the cell; crests comparatively large and variously lacerate, fused to the lower part of the cell and only just protruding beyond the one side and the base, pallid. Ovary suboblong narrowing below and substipitate; style included; stigma capitate. Flowering period from December and probably through to April.