Erica podophylla Benth.

'A small alpine plant about 6 in. high' (Niven); branches rigid, pubescent; leaves 3-nate, crowded on short branchlets as if fascicled, spreading, long-petioled; petioles ciliate, 1 lin. or more long; blade broadly linear, thick, rigid, hispid, shining, obtuse, callous and recurved at the apex, the whole 2 1/2-3 1/2 lin. long; flowers terminal (or 'irregularly axillary and terminal, subracemose', Bentham), subcalycine, solitary, on short branchlets; pedicels pilose with spreading or reversed hairs, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; bracts remote, adpressed, linear, ciliate, scarious; sepals ovate, acuminate, keel-tipped, thick and leathery, glabrous, smooth, shining, coloured, ciliate, 1 lin. long; corolla rather broad urceolate-campanulate, mouth only slightly contracted, 4-gonous, texture thick, densely puberulous, about 2 lin. long; limb subpatent, more than 1/2 the length of the tube; segments ovate, rounded; filaments bent at a right angle at their apex; anthers included, suboblong, obtuse, 2/5 lin. long, cristate; pore 2/3 the length of the cell; crests ovate in outline deeply incised at the apex, with linear lobes, in length 3/5 of the cell; ovary hispidulous.