Erica sitiens Klotzsch

Erect shrub up to 60 cm (2 ft). Branches ascending, pubescent or puberulous. Leaves 4-nate, 3-8 mm long, erect-spreading, sometimes squarrose, linear, acute, keeled or round-backed, ciliate or naked, glabrous. Flowers 4-nate or occasionally 3-nate or solitary; peduncles 2 mm long, pubescent; bracts median to remote, small. Sepals 2-4 mm long, lanceolate, acute or acuminate with a long tapering point, sulcate, subscarious, glabrous. Corolla 6-8 mm long, mostly oblong-urceolate, asymmetrically inflated in the middle, constricted at the throat and distinctly oblique at the mouth but sometimes varying to shortly tubular with nearly equal sides and hardly constricted or oblique, glabrous dry, white to red; lobes spreading, short, often white-edged when the corolla is red. Filaments filiform, bent below the anther; anthers included, 0.7 mm long, lateral, broadly cuneate but with a more or less rounded apex, in some cases nearly as broad as long, papillose, appendiculate; pore 1/3 the length of the cell; appendages subulate, entire or occasionally lobed, closely ciliate, spreading, 2/3-3/4 the length of the cell. Ovary turbinate, glabrous; style included; stigma capitate.