Erica lycopodiastrum Lam.

'A dwarf plant' (Bentham); branches erect, rigidly flexuous, tomentose-puberulous, 10-15 in. long; leaves 3-nate, nearly erect, closely and very regularly imbricate, oblong, subacute, concave above, round-backed, sulcate, thick, glabrous, shining, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, terminal on short lateral branchlets, or sometimes (by their partial arrest) sublateral; pedicels tomentose, decurved, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; bracts mostly approximate, more rarely submedian, ovate, acute, keeled, rigid, scarious, 1 1/2-1 1/4 lin. long; sepals like the bracts, but slightly larger, 1 1/4 lin. long, 1/2-3/4 the length of the corolla; corolla obconic-cyathiform, slightly widened to the mouth, glabrous, 1 lin. long (flesh-coloured, Wendland); segments slightly spreading, rounded, 1/2-2/3 of the tube in length; filaments slender; anthers included, subterminal; cells bipartite, distant, stalked upon the slender connective, narrow-obovate, subobtuse, pale brown, membranous, about 1/3 lin. long, broad-aristate; pore 1/3-1/2 the length of the cell; awns affixed to the connective and free from the filament, pendulous, subulate, acuminate, toothed, a little over 1/2 the cell in length; style included, short; stigma capitellate; ovary glabrous or with a few hairs at the summit; ovules ovoid (Bentham found them compressed, which our observations do not confirm).