Erica onusta Guthrie & Bolus

Erect, about 1 ft. high; stem rather stout; branches ascending, slender, subflexuous, white-pubescent; leaves erect-spreading, narrow-lanceolate and sulcate, or the older occasionally lanceolate and open-backed, rather thick, hirtulous, glabrescent, drying pallid, mostly 1/2-3/4 (a few older rarely 1) lin. long; flowers so densely covering the whole plant that but few leaves are visible, 3-nate or solitary on very short branchlets; pedicels 3/4 lin. long; bracts remote, small, the lowest larger and leaf-like; sepals narrow-lanceolate, acute, sulcate, mostly coloured, puberulous, 2/5 lin. long; corolla cyathiform, glabrous, red, mostly 3/5 (rarely 4/5) lin. long; segments erect, or only very slightly spreading, broad and rounded, about 2/3 the length of the tube; filaments capillary, 1 1/2-2 times as long as the anthers; anthers subexserted, narrow-elliptic, obtuse at the base and apex, smooth, minutely ciliolate on the anterior margin, a little over 1/5 lin. long, aristate; pore about 2/5 the length of the cell; awns setiform, spreading, more than 1/3 the length of the cell; style exserted, slender; stigma clavate-capitellate, small; ovary glabrous.