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Erica angusticollis

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Name

Identification
Erica angusticollis Bartl. [family ERICACEAE ] Erica curvifolia Salisb. [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Erica zeyheri Spreng.f. [family ERICACEAE ]
Related name
  • Erica angusticollis
  • Erica curvifolia
  • Erica zeyheri

Flora

Entry for ERICA curvifolia Salisb. [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 curvifolia Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 380;—Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 642.
ERICA comptoniana Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 255?, and Col. Heaths, t. 224?
ERICA terminalis Klotzsch [family ERICACEAE], in Linnæa, xii. 509.
ERICA angusticollis Bartl. [family ERICACEAE], in Linnæa, vii. 638.
Information
erect, 3/4–1 1/2 ft. high; branches few, slender, ascending; leaves 3-nate, curved and spreading, a little longer or a little shorter than the internodes, linear, blunt, glabrous, gland-ciliolate, thick, 2–3 lin. long; umbels 3–5-flowered; pedicels slender, 2 1/2–3 lin. long; bracts subremote, slender, small; sepals linear or linear-lanceolate, sulcate, viscid, 2–2 1/2 lin. long; corolla tubular-inflated below, attenuate above, or tubular-urceolate, glabrous, viscid, tube rosy, throat purple, 4 lin. long; segments spreading, white, under 1 lin. long; anthers oblong, pallid, dorsifixed, straight or slightly curved at the base, but not crescent-shaped nor prognathous, slightly bilobed at the base, about 1/2 lin. long, muticous; style at length shortly exserted; ovary stipitate, glabrous (“minutely hairy,” Salisbury); cells several-ovuled. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland, Mulder! Caledon Div.; Baviaans Kloof, Niven, 148! Bodkin in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 346! Genadendal Mountain, Bolus, 5401! Swellendam Div.; Tyger Hoek, Masson, 33! Var. β: Caledon Div.; tops of mountains near Genadendal, Burchell, 7750! Zeyher, 437 (ex Sprengel)! Bolus, 5400! and in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 345! Schlechter, 10322!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Roxburgh! Thunberg.
Notes
Chiefly variable in the size of the flowers. Salisbury appears to have founded the species on the smaller size (corolla 4 lin. long) and Sprengel, his E. Zeyheri, on the larger (7–8 1/2 lin.). E. comptoniana, Andr. Heathery, t. 255, figured from a cultivated specimen, only differs slightly in the corolla.

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