Erica heleogena T.M.Salter

Diffuse, rather dense shrub up to 60 cm (2 ft) or sometimes more, pubescent. Branches naked below, polished light brown, often tortuous, the upper very slender. Leaves 4-nate, 4-5 mm long, linear, upright to spreading, crowded, sulcate, pubescent and ciliate. Flowers 1-to 4-nate, terminal; peduncles 1.
 long, pubescent; bracts remote, linear. Sepals 2.5-3 mm long, from an ovate, more or less scarious base, foliaceous above. Corolla 5-8 mm long, elongately urceolate, roughly pubescent, rosy-pink with pale or white, suberect lobes. Anthers included, 0.8-0.9 mm long, lateral, oblong, slightly prognathous at the base, muticous; pore 1/2 the length of the cell. Ovary depressed-globose, glabrous; style included, at length manifest; stigma capitellate.