Variations
Six variations of the species below vary in flower colour, petal and sepal size and habit.

var. ananeotes
This tufted shrub grows to 400 mm (16 in) tall with a plain green leaves and has a pink or mauve rarely white petals up to 8 mm (? in)long and sepals up to 4 mm (? in)long. It grows in low-lying flats on moderately fertile well-drained soil.

var. brachyphylla
This thicket like a shrub grows to 400 mm (16 in) tall with green leaves and the flowers are pink or mauve rarely white petals up to 8 mm (? in)long and sepals up to 3.5 mm (? in)long. A distinguishing feature is that the peduncle is up to 11 mm (? in) long.

var.grandiflora
This small shrub has a white rarely mauve petals up to 5 mm (Ľ in)long and sepals up to 5 mm (Ľ in)long.

var.incrassata
this shrub has a thick needle-like leaves and produces pink or mauve rarely white flowers with petals up to 8 mm (? in)long and sepals up to 4 mm (? in)long on a peduncle up to 8 mm (? in) long.

var.pleiobotrya
This small shrub has pink or mauve rarely white petals up to 8 mm (? in)long and sepals up to 4 mm (? in)long. They are arranged on small lateral branches in clusters.

var.vassensis
This small shrub produces clusters of flowers at the apex of the main branches. It has pink or mauve rarely white petals up to 8 mm (? in)long and sepals up to 4 mm (? in)long. The sepal lobes broad and the petals are up to 2 mm wide.