Erica gossypioides E.G.H.Oliv.

Erect shrublet up to 45 cm (1 1/2 ft). Branches many, ascending, lanate. Leaves 4-nate, up to 6 mm long, linear to lanceolate, sulcate, obtuse, lanate on outer surface, glabrous on inner surface; petiole 1 mm long. Flowers terminal, 2-to 5-nate, cernuous; peduncles up to 9 mm long, lanate; bracts, basal, 2 mm long, the middle one shorter, narrowly obcuneate, lanate on the margins. Sepals up to 4 mm long and 2 mm wide, elliptic to narrowly obovate, acute, slightly keel-tipped otherwise flat, densely lanate on the outside, villous on the inside. Corolla up to 6 mm long and 5 mm wide, cyathiform, glabrous, pink turning red; lobes very broad, obtuse, rounded. Stamens 8, included; filaments short reaching to the top of the ovary, as long as or just longer than the anthers, glabrous, flat; anthers 2 mm long, straight-sided, obtuse, prognathous at the base, dark brown, scabrid, muricous; pore 1/4-1/3 the length of the cell. Ovary globose, 2 mm long, lanate on the upper half, glabrous on the lower; style short, included glabrous; stigma capitellate.