erect, 1–2 ft. high; branches virgate, glabrous, rough, scarred; leaves 6-nate, densely crowded, erect, imbricate, linear-oblong, blunt, sulcate, hispidulous, ciliate, about 2 1/2–3 lin. long; inflorescence as in E. empetrifolia but the spikes longer, up to 3 1/2 in.; pedicels 1/4 lin. long; bracts subremote, sepal-like, rather large; sepals narrow-lanceolate, pilose and ciliate, about 1 1/2 lin. long; corolla subcampanuloid, mouth widened, or the tube obconic, suddenly dilated just below the limb into a wider bowl, glabrous, about 2 lin. long; limb more or less spreading; segments very broad and rounded, nearly equal to the tube; anthers dorsifixed above the base, broadly elliptical, with a large broad cushion-like hispid base, about 2/5 lin. long, crested; pore nearly equal to the cell exclusive of the cushion; crests unusually large and broad, semi-orbicular, lacerate, resembling bat's wings, about as long as the cells; style exserted; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. null
