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Erica caffra

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Name

Identification
Erica caffra L. [family ERICACEAE ]
Related name
  • Erica caffra

Flora

Entry for ERICA caffra Linn. [family ERICACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 2, (1909) Author: By H. BOLUS, F. GUTHRIE, and N. E. BROWN.
Names
ERICA caffra Linn. [family ERICACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 353, not of Salisb. nor of others
ERICA urceolaris Berg. [family ERICACEAE], Descr. Pl. Cap. 107; Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 16; Salisb. Prodr. 292; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 9, 11; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1894; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 671.
ERICA pentaphylla Linn. [family ERICACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 506.
ERICA lamellaris Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 327.
Information
erect, 4–12 ft. high, greyish in all parts; branches virgate or spreading, pubescent; leaves 3-nate, suberect to squarrose, usually spreading, linear to linear-lanceolate, acute, open-backed, greyish-pubescent, occasionally subglabrous, commonly 4–6 (sometimes 7) lin. long; flowers 3-nate or umbellate; pedicels tomentose, about 2 lin. long; bracts remote, minute, adpressed; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, margin reflexed at the apex, pubescent, 1–2 1/2 lin. long; corolla long-persistent, ovoid-tubular-urceolate, throat contracted, laxly villous, or rarely finely pubescent, most usually white or yellowish-white, 2 1/2–3 1/2 lin. long; segments very small, spreading; filaments broader at the base, tapering upwards; anthers included, oblong, somewhat wider at the base, pallid, under 1/2 lin. long, aristate; awns subulate, about 1/2 as long as the cell; style just exserted; ovary shortly villous or strigose. null
Range
The species is widely distributed, and one of the very few which straggle into the Central Region.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Molteno Div.; Broughton, Flanagan, 1611! Aliwal North  Div.; Kraai River, Drège. Var. β: Willowmore Div.; Aasvogel Berg, Drège, 7727d!COAST REGION on mountains, usually near streams, 1000–6000 ft.: Clanwilliam Div., Leipoldt, 215! Tulbagh Div.; near streams below Winterhoek, Thunberg; Mitchells Pass, Bolus, 2614! Paarl Div.; Paarl Mountain, Drège, 7727a! Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Marloth in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 401! Caledon Div.; Genadendal, Drège! Swellendam Div.; near Puspas River, Thunberg. George Div.; between Malgat River and Great Brak River, Burchell, 6140! Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, Burchell, 3560! 3605! Zeyher, 3204! MacOwan, 802, 1230! Stutterheim Div.; near Klaklazele River, Cooper, 72! Queenstown Div.; Andries Berg, near Bailey, Galpin, 2165!EASTERN REGION Tembuland; near Gat Berg, Baur, 240! Pondoland; Egossa Forest, Sim, 2517! Natal; Umbilo Falls, Wood, 1723! 1961! Fields Hill, Rehmann, 8018!
Notes
The species is noticeable by its persistent flowers. Var. β scarcely seems worthy of

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