This species resembles Erica quadrangularis in most aspects but is distinguished by the more erect habit and conspicuously rounded angle between corolla lobes, whereas E. quadrangularis is a more branched shrub, and the corolla lobes are acutely angled to one another. Flowers Oct. (1 record).
HSF. Occasionally cultivated, and sometimes thought to be hybridised with E. quadrangularis (see note under E. quadrangularis). Known outside of cultivation in Victoria from a single record near Mt Evelyn.