Erica peltata Andrews

Erect shrub up to 60 cm (2 ft) or more. Branches ascending, straight or flexuous, usually clothed with a pubescence of very short, compound, rarely simple halts. Leaves 3-nate, 2-3 mm long, erect, linear-trigonous, imbricate, sulcate, glabrous. Flowers 3-nate in numerous clusters at the ends of the branchlets, subcalycine; peduncles 1 mm long, puberulous with simple hairs; bracts variable, sometimes one only, approximate to the calyx or with two smaller, median. Sepals about as long as the corolla-tube, ovate-lanceolate to ovate or suborbicular, acute or obtuse and apiculate, concave, transparent, pallid, ciliate or naked. Corolla 2 mm long, broad-cyathiform or subhemispherical, dry, glabrous, rosy; lobes erect, obtuse, little shorter than the tube. Filaments filiform; anthers manifest, 1 mm long, lateral, oblong to subovate, subacute, scabrid, dull red, muticous; pore 2/3 the length of the cell. Ovary small, ovoid, minutely pubescent; style exserted, red; stigma cyathiform, large, with 4 intramarginal short points, bright crimson, about 1 mm in diameter.