Erica fairii Bolus

Erect, robust, glabrous shrub up to 60 cm (2 ft). Leaves 4-to 6-nate, usually 5-nate, 4-6 mm long, elliptical or oblong, obtuse, recurved, thick, rigid, sulcate, viscid, setose-ciliate, the floral leaves obovate and somewhat dilated, closely enveloping the peduncles and bracts. Flowers terminal, 4-nate or subcapitate, cernuous, subcalycine; peduncles 1-2 mm long, viscid; bracts 6 mm long, leaflike, oblanceolate, closely adpressed to the sepals. Sepals 6 mm long, linear, keeled, subscarious with glandular margins, viscid, whitish like the bracts. Corolla 8 mm long, narrowly urceolate, very viscid, white; lobes erect, minutely serrulate. Anthers included, 1.5 mm long, lateral, oblong, obtuse, scabrid, appendiculate; pore about as long as the cell; awns spreading, rough-edged, about 2/3 the length of the cell. Ovary turbinate, glabrous, pallid; style slender, manifest; stigma capitate.