Erica rhodantha Guthrie & Bolus

Erect; branches ascending, somewhat straight, with numerous short floriferous subdecurved branchlets of from 1-1 1/2 in. long, pubescent with simple hairs; leaves erect or subspreading, crowded, imbricate, linear-trigonous, subobtuse, glabrous, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; flowers somewhat copious, sub-calycine; pedicels softly floccose with minutely plumose hairs, 1 1/2 lin. long; bracts remote, laxly spreading, lanceolate, concave, scarious, keel-tipped, coloured, the lowest more erect, about 3/4 lin. long; sepals broad-ovate, 1 lin. long, otherwise like the bracts, reaching about 2/3 the height of the corolla; corolla cyathiform or campanulate-cyathiform, about 1 1/2 lin. long; segments erect or slightly spreading, broadly rounded, about as long as the tube; anthers included, dorsifixed well above the base, longitudinally semiovate, acute or subacute, ciliolate on the margins, dark-coloured, 1/2 lin. long, muticous; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; style exserted; stigma subcapitellate, 4-lobed, rather flat on the summit; ovary oblate-spheroidal, puberulous.