Erica saxicola Guthrie & Bolus

Dwarf, 3-4 (rarely 6) in. high; branches many, decumbent or ascending, diffuse, flexuous, often intricate, the ultimate slender, rigid, white-pubescent; leaves spreading or squarrose, oblong-trigonous, subacute, mostly thick and fleshy, glabrous, mostly 1 (rarely 1 1/2) lin. long; flowers moderately crowded, on short lateral branchlets, subcalycine or subcorolline; pedicels about 1/2 lin. long; bracts approximate, 1/2 lin. long; sepals somewhat spreading, ovate, acute, concave, thick, rigid, keel-tipped, scarious, glabrous, ciliolate, less than 1 lin. long, reaching about as high as the corolla-tube; corolla broad-cyathiform, white, mostly about 1 (rarely 1 1/5) lin. long, wider when expanded than its length; segments ascending, rounded, somewhat shorter than the tube; anthers included, lateral, oblong-cuneate, or narrow-elliptic, obtuse, smooth, brown, 1/5-1/3 lin. long, crested or subulate-aristate; pore 1/3 the length of the cell; crests or awns as long as the cells or a little shorter; style subincluded or shortly exserted; stigma capitellate; ovary oblate-globose, minutely puberulous.