Brachyloma ericoides subsp. ericoides

Erect or spreading shrub c. 20–60 cm high; branchlets short-pubescent. Leaves dense, ascending, linear to narrowly elliptic, 4–13 mm long, 0.7–1.5 mm wide, mucronate, glabrous or almost so, flat to slightly convex, lower surface paler; margins plane to slightly recurved, serrulate. Flowers solitary (rarely paired); bracts and bracteoles broadly ovate to orbicular; bracts c. 6–17; bracteoles 1.3–3 mm long; sepals ovate-elliptic, 2.8–4.3 mm long, obtuse; corolla pink, rarely white, tube urceolate to bulbous, 3.5–5 mm long, constricted at apex, with 5 pubescent scales inserted below anthers; lobes not or slightly spreading, 2–2.7 mm long, obtuse to subacute, inner surface with spreading hairs towards centre; anthers cohering (sometimes only briefly); ovary 5(–6)-locular, style glabrous. Fruit globose, 3.5–5 mm long. Flowers Apr.–Nov.