Erica winteri H.A.Baker

Erect shrublet to about 50 cm high with a single, pubescent stem. Branches, sparse and laxly arranged, pubescent. Leaves 3-nate, somewhat irregular lanceolate, 3.5 mm long, erect-spreading, imbricate at first, acute, sulcate, glabrous, with small marginal glands. Flowers terminal on very short branchlets, solitary, corolline, mostly cernuous; peduncles 12 mm long, glandular-viscid; bracts remote, ovate, as sepals, but smaller. Sepals 4 mm long, adpressed to spreading, ovate, diaphanous, viscid, white. Corolla 9 mm long, globose-urceolate, diaphanous, viscid, white, glabrous; lobes erect, 3 mm long, wide, oblique. Filaments ligulate, narrowing slightly upwards; anthers included, 2 mm long, terminal, crescent-shaped, scabridulous, bipartite, dark brown, appendiculate; pore one half the length of the cell; awns 1 mm long, subulate, very rough; style included to just manifest; stigma capitate.