Erica subverticillaris Diels ex Guthrie & Bolus

Erect, 10-12 in. high; branches slender, leafy, thinly floccose with minute plumose hairs; leaves usually spreading or sometimes erect, slender, linear or narrow-lanceolate, semiterete, sulcate, glabrous, 3/4-1 lin. long; flowers clustered on short branchlets towards the ends of the main branches, in appearance more or less interruptedly subspicate; pedicels 1-1 1/4 lin. long: bracts, one foliaceous, nearly 1 lin. long, two minute, adpressed or often wanting; sepals adpressed, linear-oblong, tapering upwards, ciliate, 5/8-2/3 lin. long, reaching to (or a little above) the base of the corolla-segments; corolla broad-cyathiform, glabrous, papillose, about 1 lin. long, apparently rosy; segments continuous with tube, ovate or subtriangular, acute, about equalling the tube or but little shorter or longer; anthers included, ovate-elliptic or sometimes subtriangular with a broader base and rounded angles, 1/5 lin. long, aristate; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; awns setiform, ciliate, about equalling the cell; style exserted; stigma capitellate; ovary glabrous or very minutely puberulous.