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Erica dentata

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Identification
Erica denticulata L. [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Erica dentata Thunb. [family ERICACEAE ] Erica unrecorded unrecorded [family ERICACEAE ]
Related name
  • Erica denticulata
  • Erica pavettaeflora
  • Erica unrecorded
  • Erica dentata
  • Erica denticularis

Flora

Entry for ERICA denticulata 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 denticulata Linn. [family ERICACEAE], Mant. Alt. 229, in a wider sense;—Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 25, 5, t. 2; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1090; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 647.
ERICA dentata Thunb. [family ERICACEAE], Diss. Erica, 28; Lam. Encycl. i. 485?
ERICA pavettæflora Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], Prodr. 297, not elsewhere.
ERICA denticularis Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 384.
ERICA venusta Hort. ex Benth. [family ERICACEAE], l.c. 647.
Information
erect, branches spreading or virgate, glabrous, striate; leaves suberect or spreading, linear, acute, trigonous or round-backed, 3–3 1/2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, subsessile; bracts approximate; sepals and bracts variable in outline, from sublinear to obovate or spathulate, almost invariably broadest above the middle, sometimes unguiculate, scarious, more or less deeply pectinate-lacerate or fimbriate-lacerate, 2–3 lin. long, not cuspidate; corolla urceolate to tubular, dry, glabrous, white or rosy; tube 3–4 lin. long, 1 3/4 lin. wide; limb variable, sometimes half as long as the tube, mostly mealy above; segments 1 lin. long or less, suborbicular; pore of the anther almost as long as the cell. null
Distribution
COAST REGION on mountains at 800–2400 ft.: Paarl Div.; French Hoek, Schlechter, 9231! Bolus, 6990! Caledon Div.; tops of Baviaans Kloof Mountains, Burchell, 7702! Zwart Berg, near Caledon, Zeyher, 3200! Bolus, 6756! between Villiersdorp and French Hoek, Bolus, 5173! near Lowrys Pass. Guthrie, 2023! Var. β: Caledon Div.; Genadendal Mountain, Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 6485! Zwart Berg, near Caledon, Guthrie, 2501! Bolus, 6956! Var. γ: Tulbagh Div.; above Tulbagh Waterfall, Bolus, 5460! and in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 1307! mountains of Tulbagh Kloof, Guthrie, 2075!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Bergius and Thunberg (both in Herb. Salisbury)!
Notes
E. maculosa (Tausch in Flora, 1839, 629), is probably a garden-hybrid between E. denticulata and E. Walkeria. It has the habit and spreading leaves of the latter, while the sepals (oblong-linear, slightly wider above the middle and lacerate) and the corolla approach our var. γ of the former.

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