Erica tetragona L.F.

Shrub up to 60 cm (2 ft), erect or hanging from wet, rocky ledges, glabrous except where noted. Branches virgate, slender, somewhat channelled by the decurrent leaf cushions. Leaves 3-nate, 8-12 mm long, erect to spreading and incurved, imbricate at first but later not or scarcely so, linear, keeled, faintly sulcate, ciliate or naked, acute. Flowers axillary in a somewhat lax pseudo-raceme up to 15 cm long; peduncles 2 mm long; bracts approximate, linear, subfoliaceous, ciliate or naked, small. Sepals 5 mm long, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, scarious below, foliaceous above, ciliate or naked, coloured. Corolla 6-8 mm long, narrow-ovoid or tubular-inflated, more or less contracted at the throat, 4-sided, pale yellow; lobes1.5-2 mm long, spreading-recurved, ovate, obtuse or subacute. Filaments filiform; anthers included, 0.7 mm long, lateral, oblong, obtuse at both ends, pallid, muticous; pore 1/3 the length of the cell. Ovary oblong, substipitate or at least contracted at the base; style included; stigma capitellate, sometimes minute.