Erica manipuliflora, Salisb.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 7

12. E. manipuliflora Salisb. , Trans. Linn. Soc. London 6: 344 (1802)

(£. verticillata Forskâl , non Bergius).

Stems up to 50(-75) cm, decumbent to ascending, rarely erect, straight or somewhat flexuous. Leaves 4-8 mm, in whorls of 3-4, mostly erect or erecto-patent. Inflorescences not more than 6 cm, usually lax and intercalary or terminal and subcapitate. Sepals 1 mm; corolla 3-3-5 mm, pink, broadly campanulate, with erect lobes; anthers 0-7-1 mm, with widely separated, divergent lobes 2-2J times as long as wide. Evergreen scrub and dry, rocky places. E. & C. Mediterranean region. Al?Bu Cr G r It Ju Si Tu.