Erica glaphyra Killick

Fruticulus erectus vel suberectus, 15-50 cm altus; ramuli subvirgati, juvenes puberuli, maturi glabri. Folia constanter 3-nata, patentia vel interdum suberecta (sed petioli semper erecti), recta vel leviter incurvata, elliptica, 2.1-3.7 mm longa, 0.5-0.9 mm lata, supra plusminusve plana, infra convexa, sulcata, praeter margines petiolosque glabra, olivacco-viridia vel atro-viridia, nitida. Flores in pseudo-spicis ad 1 cm longis vel interdum in acervis cernuis terminalibus dispositi; pedicelli recurvali, 0.8-2.5 mm longi; bracteae 2, 1 mm longae, puberulae. Sepala 4, cinnamomea vel erubescentia vel rubra, basi libera vel interdum leviter imbricata, ovata. 1.1-1.2 mm longa, 0.4-0.6 mm lata (interiora saepe exterioribus angustiora et crassiora), concava. dorsaliter carinata et in parte superiore sulcata, nonnihil cartilaginea, marginibus hyalinis nonnunquam ciliatis. Corolla plerumque vinosa, 1.5-2.0 mm longa, cyathi formis; tubus inter sepala ventricosus; lobi obtusi, 0.7-0.8 mm longi. Stamina 8, filamentis 0.8 mm longis. antheris 0.6-0.8 mm longis basi setis (haud caudis) 0-6 minutis instructis. Ovarium depresso-globosum, glabrum; stylus crassus 0.7-1.2 mm longus, stigmate cyathiformi-peltato incluso vel leviter exserto.