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Erica densifolia

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Identification
Erica densifolia Willd. [family ERICACEAE ]
Related name
  • Erica densifolia

Flora

Entry for ERICA densifolia Willd. [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 densifolia Willd. [family ERICACEAE], Sp. Pl. ii. 359
ERICA decora Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 354, not of Andr.
ERICA Uhria Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 149, and Col. Heaths, t. 141; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 18, 91, t. 35; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 628.
ERICA Uhria Andr. var. pilosa [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 150, and Col. Heaths, t. 142.
ERICA ewerana Ait. [family ERICACEAE], [Dryand. in] Hort. Kew, ed. 2, ii. 368; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1303, and var. pilosa, t. 1992.
Information
erect, 2–3 ft. high; branches stout, erect, pubescent; leaves 3-nate, mostly densely imbricate on short branchlets, incurved or spreading, lanceolate to linear, the younger pubescent becoming glabrous and shining, 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long; flowers mostly solitary at the ends of short branchlets forming a pseudo-raceme; pedicels 1/2 lin. long or less; bracts approximate, 1/2 lin. long; sepals lanceolate to oblong, acute, thick and rigid, keeled or thickened at the margins and sulcate, pubescent or glabrous, sometimes forming a tetragonous calyx, 3–3 1/2 lin. long; corolla clavate-tubular, curved, more or less hairy, viscidulous chiefly in the lower half, tube red, the throat and limb greenish-yellow, 12–15 lin. long; anthers subexserted, linear-lanceolate, tapering to each extremity, aristate; awns straightly pendulous, 1/2– 3/4 the length of the cell; style usually decurved at the apex; ovary glabrous. null
Distribution
COAST REGION George Div.; Outeniqualand, Niven, 202! Montagu Pass, 1400 ft., Bolus, 8669! Schlechter, 5837! Uniondale Div.; near Groot Fontein, in Lange Kloof, 2000 ft., Drège, 7713! Knysna Div.; near Knysna, Pappe! Buchanan! and in Herb. Bolus, 5834! Also cultivated specimens!

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