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Name

Identification
Erica fucata Klotzsch ex Benth. [family ERICACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Erica rubiginosa Dulfer [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Erica caespitosa
  • Erica fucata
  • Erica rubiginosa

Flora

Entry for ERICA fucata Klotzsch ex Benth. [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 fucata Klotzsch ex Benth. [family ERICACEAE], in DC. Prodr. vii. 667, not of Thunb.
Information
erect or procumbent, glabrous in all parts, 6–12 in. high; leaves 3-nate, gemmiferous in the axils, erect-incurved, linear, subobtuse, flat above, round-backed, faintly sulcate, 2–3 lin. long; flowers subsolitary and somewhat distant or crowded towards the ends of the branches, subcalycine; pedicels slender, erect-decurved, red, 3–5 1/2 lin. long; bracts remote, minute; sepals lanceolate, acute or obtuse, concave, cartilaginous, margins hyaline, keel-tipped, red, 1–1 1/2 lin. long; corolla broad-cyathiform or subglobose-urceolate, 1–1 1/4 lin. long, and as wide, mouth slightly widened; segments rounded, spreading or erect, 1/3 the length of the tube; anthers exserted or subexserted, from sublateral to subterminal, oblong or semilanceolate, subacute, tapering towards the base, 1/2– 3/5 lin. long, muticous; pore nearly 1/2 the length of the cell; style exserted, stoutish, decurved, red; stigma subsimple or capitellate; ovary hemispherical, truncate above, glabrous, dark red. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Caledon Div.; mountains of Klein River Kloof, Zeyher, 3341! Bredasdorp Div.; hills near Elim, 300 ft., Bolus, 6739! Var. β: Bredasdorp Div.; on rocks near Elim, 250 ft., Bolus, 8507! Schlechter, 9709!
Notes
There has been some confusion as to the type of this species, and some specimens in herbaria thus marked do not well agree. Bentham unfortunately does not quote Zeyher's number. We have described from a specimen with fully developed flowers in the Kew Herb., marked as coming from the Berlin Herb. (but not bearing any number) and which no doubt, as it agrees well with his description, was what Bentham described. We have also seen a specimen in the Cape Govt. Herb., numbered 3341 and marked “stony places in Klein Rivers Kloof, Aug.” with quite undeveloped flowers but which no doubt belongs to this. The species is allied to E. scytophylla, from which it is distinguished by its generally longer leaves and pedicels, larger flowers, and muticous anthers. Var. β has scarcely any differences from the type beyond its habit, and somewhat paler flowers.

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