Linconia ericoides E.G.H.Oliv.

Small sparse woody shrublet up to 100 mm tall, with very gnarled woody spreading stem or rootstock. Branches, main branches 1-10, erect to spreading, sometimes pendulous, 30-100 mm long, leafy in upper part only, lateral branches occasionally 1 or 2, up to 10 mm long near apex of main branches, internodes short ± 0.4 mm long with infrafoliar ridges, puberulous with short hairs in young stages. Leaves erect to subspreading, incurved, 5.0-6.5 x 1.3-1.6 mm, obovate to oblong-obovate to oblong-elliptic, gradually reducing to a petiole like base, ± flat adaxially and rounded abaxially with rounded margins, keeled in dry state, irregularly ciliate when very young in upper half with worm-like crisped hairs, otherwise glabrous, apical mucro small, red turning black; stipules ± 0.3 mm long, simple to bifurcate, black. Inflorescence of 1-3(5) flowers in axils of leaves just below tips of main branches and/or subterminal lateral branchlets aggregated into a loose head; pedicel very short, ± 0.5 mm long, covered by bracteoles; bracteoles 8-10 appressed imbricate, the lowest 1.4 x 1.2 mm, broadly ovate, the upper 3.5 x 2.0 mm broadly elliptic, occasionally with lateral lobes/teeth and a small dark mucro, hard but thin in texture, green with thin transparent marginal zone and red-flecked striped, shortly ciliate with crisped hairs. Calyx 5-lobed, adnate to ovary, broadly conical with a few longitudinal ridges in basal half, glabrous; tube ± 0.2 mm long; lobes very broadly deltoid, subacute, appressed, very thin and transparent often flecked red. Corolla 5-lobed, fused slightly at base for 1.5-2.0 mm, 11 x 6 mm, urceolate to obovoid-urceolate; lobes erect naviculate subapically touching, basally with thickened Y-shaped ridges for ± 1/3 their length, glabrous, hard and wax-like, pale to deep shell-pink with darker minutely cucullate tips. Stamens 5, included; filaments adnate to corolla tube at base, otherwise free, 7 x 1 mm, subcylindrical, very narrowed at point of attachment to anther, white to pinkish, glabrous; anthers 2.5 x 1.5 mm, sagittate with paler cap-like upper portion; thecae basally diverging, erect, dehiscing adaxially from large pore in lower 1/2-2/3. Ovary 2-locular, 1/3 inferior, 2.5 x 1.5 mm, complanate, deeply furrowed laterally between carpels, glabrous, green; ovules 8-10 per locule. subpendulous in two irregular longitudinal rows; placenta in upper2/3; styles 2, included, erect, touching apically then diverging for 1 mm, glabrous; stigma simple obtuse. Fruit not seen.