Euchaetis ericoides Dümmer

Shrubs 700 mm tall, fairly erect, slender, diffuse, single-stemmed at base. Branches somewhat erect, straight, smooth, glabrescent, without order. Branchlets spreading-erect, very slender, thinly and minutely puberulous, alternate or occasionally on young plants opposite, not hidden by the leaves. Leaves 6.5-12 mm long, 1.7-2.2 mm broad, lanceolate, acute, straight or sub-secund or sub-falcate, glabrous, sub-glaucous, erect or somewhat spreading, alternate or opposite, sessile; apex with a small blunt callus; margins narrowly translucent and serrulate with numerous minute gland dots nearby; adaxial surface flat and smooth; abaxial surface fairly flat with 2 parallel rows of small gland dots along the midrib. Inflorescence terminal, normally 3-nate but if leaves opposite then 4-nate; flowers 5 mm diam., white. Bract one per flower, 2.7-3.5 mm long, 1.3 mm broad, lanceolate, sub-glaucous; apex with a blunt callus; margins sub serrulate above, ciliolate and translucent below; adaxial surface thinly puberulous; abaxial surface glabrous, with a fairly prominent gland-dotted midrib. Bracteoles two, 2.5 mm long, 1.2 mm broad, ovate-lanceolate, apex thickened with a blunt callus; margins broadly translucent and ciliolate; adaxial surface puberulous; abaxial surface glabrous, sub-glaucous. Calyx lobes five, 2.8-3.1 mm long. 2 mm broad, oblong-elliptic, obtuse, apex with a small blunt elevated callus, margins ciliate and very broadly translucent; abaxial surface pubescent towards the middle; adaxial surface glaucous, glabrous, midrib obscurely gland-dotted. Petals five, 5 mm long overall; limb 2 mm long, 2 mm broad, orbicular, apiculate-retuse, strongly recurved, white; margin minutely serrulate; claw 3 mm long, 1.2 mm broad, strongly transversely bearded above extending mainly down the prominent midrib; margins ciliate. Staminodes five, vestigial, a minute green gland at most 0.1 mm long. Filaments five, becoming 1.7 mm long after anthesis, subulate, glabrous. Anthers five, before anthesis 1 mm long, 0.7 mm broad, wine-coloured; apical gland small oblong-globose. Pollen 50 µ long. 30 µ broad, oblong. Disc exceeds the ovary by a long way, closing over it slightly, level on top, green, fleshy. Stigma 0.6 mm diam., capitate, depressed globose, green. Style becoming 1.5 mm long, erect, glabrous. Ovary 5-carpellate, 0.8 mm long, 0.8 mm diam., apices minutely scabrid. Fruit 5-carpellate, 9.5-10 mm long, 5 mm diam., glabrous, each carpel with a conspicuous wine-coloured stripe down the midrib and with, to either side, margins bearing a gland-dotted ridge; horns about 4 mm long, erect with apex retuse and minutely scabrid. Seed 5-6 mm long, including a white aril 1.5 mm long, 1.8-2.2 mm broad, black not shining (partly from Esterhuysen 21277).