Erica fontana L.Bolus

Erect shrub up to 1.8 m. Branches pubescent. Leaves 4-nate, 4-6 mm long, slender, closely imbricate, upright to spreading, sulcate, pubescent, ciliate. Inflorescence elongate. Flowers terminal on very short branchlets, usually solitary; peduncles 2 mm long, pubescent; bracts remote, small. Sepals 3-4 mm long, linear-acuminate from an ovate scarious base, pubescent, ciliate. Corolla 8-10 mm long, tubular, slightly widening to the mouth, dry, pubescent, dull rose, pale beneath. Filaments tapering upwards; anthers included, 0.6 mm long, lateral, more or less deltoid, less than twice as long as broad; pore about A the length of the cell. Ovary turbinate, glabrous; style exserted; stigma capitellate.