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Erica cruenta

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Name

Identification
Erica cruenta Sol. [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Erica sanguinolenta
  • Erica concinna
  • Erica melliflua
  • Erica elimensis
  • Erica unrecorded
  • Erica cruenta

Flora

Entry for ERICA cruenta Soland. [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 cruenta Soland. [family ERICACEAE], in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, ii. 16;—Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 13; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 4, 11; Andr. Heathery, t. 110, and Col. Heaths, t. 17; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1656; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 629.
ERICA melliflua Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], Prodr. 293, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 354.
ERICA coccinea Drège [family ERICACEAE], Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 182.
Information
erect, 2–3 ft. high; leaves 3-nate (3–4-nate, Bentham), spreading or incurved, imbricate, linear, glabrous or the younger pubescent, 2 1/2–4 lin. long; pedicels 3 lin. long; bracts mostly small and remote, rarely approximate; sepals ovate, acute, or lanceolate, acuminate, about 2 lin. long; corolla clavate-tubular or trumpet-shaped, glabrous, dry, 10–12 lin. long, blood-red; filaments slender, wider at the base, usually affixed at an angle to the anther and shortly below its middle; anther included or subexserted, oblong, about 1 lin. long, aristate; awns sometimes short and partially subdecurrent along the filament, or longer and hanging below the cell; more rarely muticous; ovary glabrous. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Caledon Div.; from Palmiet River to Zoetemelks Valley, 700–2500 ft., Burchell, 7580! 7928! MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 188! Schlechter, 5573! 5599; 7783! 10449! Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam, Masson, 118! near Zuurbraak, Galpin, 3575! Var. β: Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, 1000 ft., Guthrie, 4590! Var. γ: Caledon Div.; Palmiet River, 800 ft., Guthrie, 2297! 3553! 4163! Var. δ: Bredasdorp Div.; near Elim, 300 ft., Bolus, 6738! Caledon Div.; Diep Gat, 300 ft., Galpin, 3650!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg, Drège! Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated specimens!
Notes
The species is variable as to the length of sepals and corolla, and of anther-appendages; in var. β, which differs little, the anthers are muticous. In var. γ the shorter and paler corolla gives so different an appearance that we should have hesitated to place it here but for the presence of one specimen which showed corollas on the same branch ranging from 6–8 lin. in length. Otherwise the structure of the flowers is similar. This var. is intermediate in character between the normal form and var. δ, and connects two forms which appear widely different, though we cannot doubt their close relationship.

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