Erica stenantha Klotzsch ex Benth.

Small, branched, 8 in. or more high; branches ascending, subflexuous, villous or pubescent; leaves crowded, squarrose-recurved, rigid, linear-lanceolate, subobtuse, flattish, sulcate, glabrous, ciliate, glossy, about 1 lin. long; flowers numerous, on short crowded branchlets towards the ends of the branches, subcorolline; pedicels slender, 3/4-2 1/2 lin. long; bracts remote, lanceolate, subscarious, ciliate, small; sepals ovate to subrhomboidal, acute, keeled, concave, scarious, cilate, paler than the corolla, 1/2-1 lin. long; corolla broad-obconic to obconic-campanuloid, rosy or bright red, 1-1 3/4 lin. long; segments continuous with the tube or slightly recurved, ovate or lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, keeled, from as long as, to nearly twice as long as the tube; anthers included, longitudinally semi-ovate, subacute, minutely hairy, 1/2-3/5 lin. long, muticous; pore 1/4 the length of the cell; style exserted; stigma subsimple or minutely obconic or distinctly obconic-cyathiform; ovary villous.