Erica acrophyaFresen. [family ERICACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Erica arboreaL. [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
Erica acrophya
Erica unrecorded
Erica arborea
Flora
Entry for ERICA arborea Linn. [family ERICACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 482, (1877) Author: (By Prof. Oliver.)
Names
ERICA arboreaLinn. [family ERICACEAE], DC. Prod. vii. 690.
ERICA acrophyaFresen. [family ERICACEAE], in Flora, 1838, p. 604.
Information
Shrub of 5–6 ft. (occasionally 50 ft. in Madeira, Lowe); extremities shortly pubescent-tomentose with intermingled short patent minutely barbellate hairs. Leaves narrow-linear, ascending, 1/6– 1/3 in. long, minutely puberulous or glabrate, shortly petiolate. Flowers usually clustered towards the extremities of short lateral branches, often confluent and forming leafy racemes. Calyx deeply 4-fid; segments elliptical or ovate-elliptical. Corolla 2–4 times longer than the calyx. Anthers included, bifid; cells dehiscing by a very oblique pore, each with a basal ciliolate or erose obtuse membranous appendix from the back.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Schimper! Q. Dillon and Petit! Rüppell!
Notes
I do not find the difference in the form of the anther-appendix d by Fresenius, l.c., to hold good as distinguishing the Abyssinian plant from the South European and Madeiran species.
