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Erica bergiana

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

Flora

Entry for ERICA bergiana 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 bergiana Linn. [family ERICACEAE], Diss. de Erica, n. 6;—Amœn. Acad. viii. 55; Mant. Alt. 235; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 2, 29; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 939; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 662; var. glabra, Wendl. l.c. fasc. 24, 189, t. 72.
ERICA lacunæflora Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], Prodr. 297, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 377.
ERICA quadriflora Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 41, and Col. Heaths, t. 125.
ERICA florida Thunb. [family ERICACEAE], Diss. Erica, 40.
ERICA campylophylla Spreng. [family ERICACEAE], Syst. Veg. ii. 190?
ERICA turrigera Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 377.
ERICA cupressina Sinclair [family ERICACEAE], Hort. Eric. Wob. 7.
ERICA incurva Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Col. Heaths, iii. t. 175, and Heathery, t. 169.
ERICA quadrifolia Pritz. [family ERICACEAE], Ic. Ind. i. 421.
ERICA nitens Lee ex Steud. [family ERICACEAE], Nomencl. ed. 2, i. 576?
Information
erect, 1–3 ft. high; branches mostly virgate, hirsute; leaves generally spreading, linear, obtuse, sulcate, or subopen-backed, rough with tubercle-based hairs, or sometimes smooth and subglabrous, ciliate, 1 1/2–3 lin. long; flowers 4-nate; pedicels pubescent, red, 1 1/2–3 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals from a broad ovate scarious lacerate ciliate base, tapering into a shorter or longer foliaceous green cusp, 1/2–1 1/4 lin. long; corolla urceolate-globose, or in smaller specimens subovoid, red, 1 3/4–3 1/2 lin. long; segments erect or slightly spreading, ovate to semiorbicular, imbricate at the base, 1/4– 1/3 as long as the tube; anthers included, dorsifixed mostly rather high above the base, subovate, very obtusely rounded at the top, smoothish, ciliate or naked, 1/5 to nearly 1/2 lin. long, cristate or subaristate, the appendage broad-lanceolate, lacerate or subulate and fringed; pore 2/5– 1/2 as long as the cell; style included or slightly exserted; stigma capitate; ovary on a broad disk, glabrous. null
Distribution
COAST REGION 1000–4000 ft.: Clanwilliam Div.; Ezelsbank, Drège, 7769! Pakhuis Berg, Schlechter, 10815! Tulbagh Div.; Roode Zand, Thunberg; Tulbagh Kloof, Zeyher, 1097! Guthrie, 2187! Drège; Tulbagh Waterfall, Niven, 23! Mitchells Pass, Bolus, 5176! Nelson, 34! Worcester Div.; Dutoits Peak, Marloth, 2413! Dutoits Kloof, Drège. Paarl Div.; French Hoek, MacOwan Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 935! Stellenbosch Div.; Jonkers Hoek, Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 4957! Caledon Div.; mountains near Zoetemelks Vlei, Grisbrook in Herb. Guthrie, 3296! Zeyher, 3218! Zwart Berg, Pappe!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated specimens!
Notes
This species is easily recognized from all others in this section by its reflexed sepals. These specimens, which we have carefully examined, appear to show a gradation of difference in almost every organ, which renders even a distinction of varieties with constant characters, apparently impossible.

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