Erica rupicola Klotzsch

Erect; branches stoutish, ascending, either few and subvirgate, or many, spreading and subfastigiate, glabrous or puberulous; leaves 3-nate, or occasionally 4-nate on the same plant, crowded, erect or spreading-incurved, narrow-linear, keeled, glabrous, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; flowers on short branchlets along the branches, with a subracemose appearance, corolline; pedicels 3/4 lin. long; bracts remote, subbasal, minute; sepals broad-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, ciliate, coloured, 3/4 lin. long; corolla ovoid or suburceolute-ovoid, mouth contracted, slightly oblique, 'deep rosy red' (Klotzsch), about 2 1/2 lin. or rarely 1 3/4 lin. long; segments slightly spreading, or erect and at length connivent, about 1/5 as long as the tube; filaments very slender, sigmoid near the apex and thickened above the curve, about 2 lin. long; anthers oblong, obtuse, scaberulous; cells partite to the base, 2/5 lin. long, muticous; pore 2/5 the length of the cell; style included, often just manifest; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous.