Erica lanceolifera S. Moore

A shrubby herb, often with trailing branches, 20-60 cm tall. Branches slender, more or less densely pubescent. Leaves leaves 4-whorled, somewhat pointing upwards, narrowly ovate, 2-5 mm long, more or less densely pubescent and with longer glandular hairs; margin rolled under. Flowers in heads of 4-12, terminal on the side branches. Corolla bellshaped, c. 2.5 long and 2 mm in diameter, mostly hairless; stamens 8, about as long as the corolla; style exceeding the corolla by 1-2 mm.

Locally frequent

Chimanimani Mts, Zimbabwe and Mozambique (It may also occur in Tanzania but the nationality of that record is doubtful).