Erica pectinifolia flowers

The flowers of Erica pectinifolia grow drooping or spreading in groups of four, the hairy peduncles only 1 mm long. The leaves close to the flowers are wider, morphing into the bracts above them. The clawed bracts are ovate to triangular, about 6 mm long and their membranous margins fringed. The also clawed sepals are slightly longer than the bracts but with smaller blades and sometimes white or partly so.

The flowers are tubular, bulging a little in the middle and constricted at the throat. The corolla is hairy, longer haired in its upper part, the hairs hooked. The short corolla lobes are blunt-tipped and slightly spreading. Corolla colour is white or tinged pink and fading to dull pink. The corolla tube is from 14 mm to 18 mm long.

The anthers are included at the bulge in the tube. The top-shaped ovary is hairy and its style exserted, ending in a small head-like stigma.

Flowering occurs from before midautumn through winter and spring, maybe all year round (Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; Baker and Oliver, 1967; iNaturalist; https://www.worldfloraonline.org).