Erica rhodopis Bolus ex Guthrie & Bolus

Much branched, 4-8 in. high; branches ascending, flexuous, slender, glabrescent; leaves 3-nate, adpressed, broadly linear, glabrous, somewhat shorter than the internodes, 1 1/2 lin. long; flowers usually terminal, or sometimes by the abortion of lateral branchlets pseudo-lateral, 2-3-nate; pedicels very slender, 3/4 lin. long; bracts remote, minute; sepals ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous, about 1/4 the length of the corolla; corolla ovoid, glabrous, dry, rosy, 2-2 1/4 lin. long; segments deltoid, connivent in the dried state, about 1/4 the length of the tube; anthers ovate-oblong, about 1/5 lin. long, aristate; awns spreading, a little longer than the cells; style included; stigma capitate; ovary on a thick stipe about as long as itself, cells 2-(or sometimes 1?) ovuled.