Calluna Salisb.
Small evergreen shrub. Lvs opposite, sessile, scale-like, 4-ranked. Fls in bracteate, terminal spikes or sometimes panicles, 4-merous. Calyx of free petaloid sepals, > corolla, persistent. Corolla deeply lobed, campanulate, persistent, scarious. Stamens 8, included; anthers acuminate, with 2 reflexed dorsal appendages, opening by elongated slits. Fr. a septifragal capsule, invested in the persistent perianth. Seeds few.
1 sp., Europe, Asia Minor, N. Africa. Naturalised sp. 1.
