Upright bushy shrub, to 0.6m tall. Flowers pure white, VIII-IX (in wild), 0.5cm long, cup-shaped; corolla covered with long woolly hairs so resembling tiny balls of wild cotton; anthers with awn.
Sources:
Ericas of South Africa (D.Schumann, G. Kirsten & E. G. H. Oliver) 1992: p 101
