Erica irregularis Benth.

Erect shrub up to 1 1/2 m (5 ft.) high under favourable conditions. Branches subvirgate, the younger, with the peduncles, shortly and softly pubescent, otherwise glabrous. Leaves 3-to 4-nate on the same branch, 5-6 mm long, erect-incurved, linear-triangular, sulcate. Flowers abundant in a somewhat long, irregular pseudo-raceme, on very short, suppressed branchlets, solitary in each axil with two or more minute, bract-like leaves at the base of the peduncle or, occasionally also terminal; peduncles 4-5 mm long, slender, downy, coloured; bracts median, the upper pair about 1.5 mm long, the lowest smaller, scarious. Sepals about 3 mm long reaching 3/5-2/3 the height of the corolla, subspreading, not imbricate at the base, lanceolate-oblong, acute, scarious, keel-tipped, ciliolate. Corolla about 4 mm long, ovoid, not or very slightly constricted at the throat with a rather wide mouth, dry, rosy; lobes about 1/4 the length of the tube, obtuse. Anthers included, 1 mm long, lateral, oblong-cuneate, contracted at the base, appendiculate; pore 3/4 the length of the cell; crests as long as the cell, lanceolate-acuminate, denticulate on the outer margin. Ovary subturbinate on a large disc, glabrous; style included; stigma capitellate.