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Erica cyathiformis

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Identification
Erica cyathiformis Salisb. [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Erica persoluta
  • Erica copiosa
  • Erica cyathiformis
  • Erica pulchella
  • Erica laevis
  • Erica tenella
  • Erica glabella

Flora

Entry for ERICA cyathiformis 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 cyathiformis Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 376
ERICA lævis Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 221 and Col. Heaths, t. 182; Spreng. Pugill. i. 30? Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1393.
ERICA caffra Lodd. [family ERICACEAE], l.c. t. 196, not of Linn. nor of others.
ERICA paniculata Wendl. var. alba [family ERICACEAE], Eric. Ic. fasc. 14, 25?
ERICA paniculata Wendl. ex Steud. [family ERICACEAE], Nom. ed. 2, i. 577.
ERICA persoluta Wendl. var. major [family ERICACEAE], l.c. fasc. 24, 187, t. 71?
ERICA persoluta Benth. var. lævis [family ERICACEAE], in DC. Prodr. vii. 679.
ERICA stenophylla Benth. [family ERICACEAE], l.c. 679.
ERICA odorata Spreng. [family ERICACEAE], Neue Entdeck. i. 271.
Information
erect, much branched, 1–1 1/2 ft. high; branches puberulous, the ultimate very slender; leaves erect or spreading, linear, obtuse, glabrous, slender, often curved, 1/2–1 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, sometimes by abortion of branchlets pseudo-axillary; pedicels slender, 3/4–1 lin. long; bracts remote, very small; sepals ovate, obtuse, ciliate, shining, less than 1/2 lin. long; corolla subglobose-campanulate or broad-urceolate-campanulate, not (or hardly) constricted at the throat, somewhat widened at the mouth, 3/4–1 1/8 lin. long; segments about 2/3 as long as the tube; anthers included, subtriangular, with broadly rounded angles, subscabrid, ciliate at the base, 1/5 lin. long, aristate; pore about 2/3 the length of the cell; awns spreading, distant, naked on the margins, shorter than the cell; style included, short; stigma subpeltate-capitate; ovary glabrous or puberulous. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Worcester Div.; banks of streams in Hex River Valley, 1600 ft., Tyson, 637! Caledon Div.; mountains near Grabouw, Bolus, 4176! and without exact locality, Thom, 978! Tulbagh or Worcester Div.; Bolus, 5191!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated specimens!
Notes
There has been some confusion about this species. Our specimens from several localities agree well with each other, with the specimen in the Berlin Herbarium marked E. lævis, Spreng., and with Bentham's type of E. stenophylla. Salisbury himself saw the resemblance of his species to E. viridipurpurea, L., though he observes: “Closely allied to [it], the anthers being almost exactly the same; yet on account of the difference in the interstices of the corolla-limb, I can scarcely regard it as a variety of that.” To this we can only add that the leaves appear to be constantly smaller,—about half the size. It is much nearer to E. viridipurpurea than to E. subdivaricata, under which it was also placed by Bentham. It is also allied to E. quadrangularis, but the habit and general aspect are different, leaves constantly smaller, and the corolla less wide at the mouth.

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