Erica scytophylla Guthrie & Bolus

Erect shrub up to about 90 cm (3 ft), entirely glabrous except for the branches and peduncles. Branches erect to spreading, few, subvirgate, rigid, little divided and leafy above, soon naked below, downy, glabrescent. Leaves 3-nate, 4-6 mm long, erect, incurved, imbricate, the younger elliptical or oblong, sub-obtuse, callous-denticulate, the older and lower narrow-oblong, somewhat longer and naked, all sulcate, round-backed, leathery, rigid, smooth. Flowers coralline or subcalycine, solitary in the leaf axils with 3 minute bract-like leaves above and at the base of each peduncle; peduncles 4-8 mm long, slender, coloured, downy; bracts, minute, 2 inframedian, 1 basal. Sepals 2.5-3 mm long, adpressed, linear, thick, rigid, red, reaching from more or less half-way to about the top of the corolla-tube. Corolla 3 mm long, urceolate-campanulate, scarcely contracted at the throat at full maturity, subtetragonous, thick, subfleshy, rosy; lobes 1/3 of the length of the tube to nearly equal to it, spreading, ovate. Anthers manifest to sub-exserted, 1 mm long, subterminal, oblong, bipartite, dark-coloured, denticulate at the base; teeth short, squarrose; pore less than 1/2 the length of the cell. Ovary cylindrical, glabrous; style long-exserted; stigma capitellate.