Erica sparsa Lodd.

Erect shrub, 0.6-2.0 m high. Leaves suberect to subspreading, 2.1-3.2 mm long, linear, obtuse, obscurely sulcate, glabrous. Flowers subcalycine, many, crowded in dense masses on short branchlets. Calyx sepals 0.7-1.0 mm long, broadly ovate to orbicular, keel-tipped, subacute, concave, subcartilaginous, paler than corolla. Corolla 1.6-2.1 mm long, cyathiform to broadly cyathiform, mouth widened, pale rosy to pink; lobes broadly rounded, erect, ± equal to tube. Filaments short, straight; anthers subincluded, generally manifest, 0.7-0.9 mm long, oblong or ovate, obtuse, rough, nearly black, muticous; pore less than 1/2 length of theca. Ovary minutely hairy; style slender, well-exserted; stigma obconic-cyathiform or sometimes obconic (solid), small. Flowering time May-Nov.