Erica brachysepala Guthrie & Bolus

Erect, of stunted appearance, 6-8 in. high; branchlets flexuous, rigid, roughly pubescent, or glabrescent; leaves 3-nate, erect, often adpressed, subimbricate or sometimes not exceeding the internodes, from linear to oblong or elliptical, blunt, sulcate, glabrous, distantly gland-ciliate, thick, 3/4-1 1/4 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, or in clusters of 5-6; pedicels viscous-pubescent, 1/2-1 lin. long; bracts from subapproximate to subremote, small; sepals like the bracts and leaves, oblong, thick, obtuse, glandular, subviscid, 1/2-2/3 lin. long; corolla cyathiform or broad-cyathiform-campanulate, mouth widened or not contracted, glabrous, subviscid, dull-yellow or rosy, 1-1 1/4 lin. long; segments erect or slightly spreading, broadly rounded, about 1/3 the, length of the tube; anthers well-exserted, lateral, dorsifixed just above the base, oblong, obtuse, from a little over 1/3 to nearly 1/2 lin. long, muticous; pore 1/3 the length of the cell, style exserted, slender, unusually straight (in this group); stigma subpeltate-capitate; ovary glabrous.