Erica pectinifolia Salisb.

Erect shrub up to1.5 m high (5 ft), with slender, pubescent branches. Leaves 4-nate, 3-6 mm Jong, variable from linear to lanceolate and ovate, acute, more or less open-backed, thick and rigid, roughly and thinly hispid and pectinate-ciliate with long, pallid, cartilaginous hairs, the floral leaves wider and passing gradually into the form of the bracts. Flowers mostly 4-nate, cernuous or spreading; peduncles 1 mm long, pubescent; bracts approximate, about 6 mm long, unguiculate, broad-ovate or subtriangular above and sulcate, margins scarious, pectinate-ciliate. Sepals 7 mm long, similar to the bracts but with the claw longer and the blade somewhat smaller. Corolla tubular, 1.4-1.8 cm. long slightly inflated in the middle, constricted at the throat, pubescent with longer, barbellate or shaggy hairs in the upper part; lobes short, slightly spreading, obtuse. Anthers included, about 0.9 mm long, lateral, oblong, shortly awned; pore 1/2 the length of the cell. Ovary turbinate, villous with long, white silky hairs; style exserted; stigma capitate.