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Erica corifolia

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Identification
Erica corifolia L. [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Erica calycanthoides
  • Erica corifolia
  • Erica patula
  • Erica articularis
  • Erica bracteata
  • Erica spicata
  • Erica imbricata
  • Erica tunicata
  • Erica tenuifolia
  • Erica ramentacea
  • Erica erectiuscula
  • Erica corifolia ?

Flora

Entry for ERICA articularis 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 articularis Linn. [family ERICACEAE], Mant. 65;—Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 653
ERICA teretiuscula Wendl. [family ERICACEAE], Eric. Ic. fasc. 21, 141, t. 54.
ERICA flagelliformis Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Col. Heaths, t. 234.
ERICA flagellata Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 262.
ERICA flagellaris Link [family ERICACEAE], Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 365.
ERICA corifolia Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 386.
ERICA struthiolæfolia Bartl. [family ERICACEAE], in Linnæa, vii. 636 (acc. to Benth.).
ERICA filiformis? Bartl. [family ERICACEAE], in Linnæa, vii. 636 (acc. to Benth.).
ERICA rubicunda Klotzsch [family ERICACEAE], in Linnæa, xii. 540.
ERICA strutiæfolia Steud. [family ERICACEAE], Nomencl. ed. 2, i. 580.
Information
mostly erect, 1–1 1/2 ft. high; branches usually virgate, not numerous, slender, glabrous, rarely puberulous; leaves 3-nate, erect, mostly incurved and adpressed, generally about equal to the internodes, linear or narrow-lanceolate, keeled or sulcate, mostly 1 1/2–3 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, more or less clustered, often so crowded on short branchlets as to form a dense long pseudo-spike; pedicels slender, 1–1 1/2 lin. long; bracts 2, subremote or subapproximate, linear-subulate to oblanceolate, third subbasal, longer or wanting; sepals obovate, keel-tipped, acute or obtuse, concave, spreading at full maturity, generally reaching from 1/2– 3/5 the length of the corolla (including the limb), 3/4–1 1/2 lin. long; corolla suburceolate, only slightly contracted at the throat, sometimes subtetragonous, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; segments erect or spreading, subovate, deep flesh-colour (Andrews), concolorous or dark-coloured, 1/3– 1/2 the tube in length; anthers sublateral, almost basifixed; cells deeply parted, semi-ovate or elliptical, 1/5– 2/5 lin. long, crested; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; crests subovate in outline, more or less deeply incised; style included; stigma capitate; ovary lobed. null
Distribution
COAST REGION frequent from Clanwilliam Div. to Caledon Div., Thunberg, Burchell, 8640! Ecklon & Zeyher! Drège! MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 22! 355! Bolus, 4055! 4748! 5285! 5422! Guthrie, 1007! 1504! 2188! 3178! Marloth, 1682! Leipoldt, 611! Var. β: much less frequent; Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, distributed as “ E. gnaphalodes, L.,” Drège! Paarl Div.; French Hoek, 1000–1500 ft., Guthrie, 3166! Caledon Div.; near the Baths at Caledon, Guthrie, 2503! Riversdale Div.; Kampsche Berg, 1000 ft., Galpin, 3607! Var. γ: Worcester Div.; on the Matroosberg, 5700 ft., Bolus, 6897! (Schlechter, 10073, may belong here, but the flowers are too young for identification).SOUTH AFRICA without locality; Var. γ (Niven?), 65!
Notes
In Linnæus' herb. is a specimen marked E. articularis, which agrees with his description, so far as that goes; also with the figure of Wendland's E. teretiuscula, and with numerous specimens marked by Bentham and others with the latter name. Our var. β is hardly more than a colour variety. Galpin's 3607 and Guthrie's 3166 connect the two varieties as to leaf-form. Var. γ may be a more stunted, subalpine form of var. β (which also was found at a higher elevation); had it stood alone, it would doubtless have been deemed of specific rank. It has the aspect of E. humifusa, Salisb., otherwise a very different plant.

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