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Erica demissa

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Identification
Erica demissa Klotzsch ex Benth. [family ERICACEAE ]
Related name
  • Erica demissa

Flora

Entry for ERICA Petiveri 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 Petiveri Linn. [family ERICACEAE], Diss. Erica, n. 50; Mant. alt. 235
ERICA coccinea Linn. [family ERICACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. 1, i. 355, not of Diss.
ERICA Sebana Donn [family ERICACEAE], Hort. Cantab. 45, ex Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 395; Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 10; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 10, 5; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 23; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 621.
ERICA Sebana Andr. var. aurantia [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, tt. 83, 84, 85, 190, and Col. Heaths, tt. 55, 56, 57, 129.
ERICA Sebana Andr. var. lutea [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, tt. 83, 84, 85, 190, and Col. Heaths, tt. 55, 56, 57, 129.
ERICA Sebana Andr. var. viridis [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, tt. 83, 84, 85, 190, and Col. Heaths, tt. 55, 56, 57, 129.
ERICA Sebana Andr. var. spicata [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, tt. 83, 84, 85, 190, and Col. Heaths, tt. 55, 56, 57, 129.
ERICA Sebana Andr. var. nana [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 189.
ERICA Sebana Lodd. var. lutea [family ERICACEAE], Bot. Cab. t. 266.
ERICA socciflora Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 347.
ERICA demissa Sinclair [family ERICACEAE], Hort. Eric. Wob. 8, not of Klotzsch.
ERICA baculiflora Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 346.
ERICA cothurnalis Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], Prodr. 297, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 347.
ERICA africana angustifolia, etc. Seba [family ERICACEAE], Thes. i. 32, t. 21, fig. 4.
Information
erect, 2–3 ft. high; branches stout, with many short mostly curved branchlets; leaves 3-nate, spreading or recurved, more rarely erect and straight, linear, subglabrous, 2–4 lin. long; flowers 1–3-nate, mostly cernuous; pedicels 2–2 1/2 lin. long; bracts approximate, ovate, 1/2– 2/3 the length of the sepals; sepals ovate, oblong or narrow-lanceolate, acute, scarious, concave, glabrous, 2 1/2–3 1/2 lin. long, 1/3– 2/3 as long as the corolla; corolla narrow ovoid to tubular, glabrous, greenish-yellow, orange or reddish, 3–8 1/2 lin. long; limb erect, 2–3 lin. long. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Var. ε: Ceres Div.; Cold Bokkeveld, Schlechter, 8899.COAST REGION on mountains from 500–5000 ft.: Tulbagh Div.; near Tulbagh, Schlechter, 7473! Cape Div.; Table Mountain and other places, Thunberg, Burchell, 612! 776! Ecklon, 99! Drège! Bolus, 3770! 4568! Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland, MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 5! Zeyher, 3185β! Caledon Div.; near Genadendal and Baviaans Kloof, Burchell, 8627! 7650! 7803! Schlechter, 10308! Klein River Kloof, Zeyher, 3185α! Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam, Burchell, 7302! Riversdale Div.; summit of Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 7125! George Div.; between Touw River and Kaymans River, Burchell, 5768! Var. β: Stellenbosch Div.; Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8246! Hottentots Holland, Niven, 129! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, Burchell, 8130! Div.? Bolus, 8086! Var. γ: Swellendam Div., Niven, 127! George Div.; Outeniqualand, Niven, 128! Div.? Guthrie, 3015! Var. δ: Cape Div.; mountains near Cape Town, Burchell, 553! Cooper, 2681! Wilms, 3449! Bolus, 4476! Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland, Mund, 1! Bredasdorp Div.; Elim, Schlechter, 7741! Swellendam Div.; peak near Swellendam, Burchell, 7424! Var. ε: Caledon Div.; Zwart Berg, near Caledon, Mund, 2! Pappe! near Hemel en Aarde, Zeyher, 3186! Bredasdorp Div.; Elim, Schlechter, 7631!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Drège, 7695! 7696! Var. δ: Thunberg. And cultivated specimens of the type and var. δ!

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