Erica chamissonis Klotzsch ex Benth.

Erect shrub up to 4
 (1 1/2 ft) or so. Branches straight and subvirgate or spreading, subcorymbose and fastigiate, glabrous, pallid or dark with more or less prominent, sometimes decurrent, leaf cushions. Leaves 4-nate or scattered, 4-1
 long, very variable in size and setting, the shorter, erect, crowded, imbricate, strongly incurved, the longer incurved and squarrose, all linear, acute, sulcate, glabrous. Flowers terminal and axillary in rather dense terminal umbels, corolline; peduncles 4-8 mm long, floccose with minute, distinctly branched or subplumose hairs, red; bracts two, median. Sepals 2-4 mm long, reaching from about 2/5-3/4 the height of the corolla, narrow-lanceolate, ovate, obovate or suborbicular, keeled or retuse with an excurrent keel-tip, occasionally by projection of the keel appearing tetragonous, the broader flattish, the smaller more concave, margins entire or lacerate, scarious, glabrous, glossy, pallid or deep-coloured. Corolla 3-6.5 mm long, campanulate or obconic or subfunnel-shaped, dry, glabrous, pale rosy or deep red. Filaments broad, tapering upwards; anthers included,1-2 mm long, lateral, oblong to semiovate, acute or acuminate, papillose or minutely hairy, muticous or with minute, pallid, squarrose awns at the apex of the filament; pore 2/5 the length of the cell, situate in the middle. Ovary broad-turbinate, glabrous; style exserted; stigma subsimple.