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Erica distorta

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Erica distorta Bartl. [family ERICACEAE]
Erica distorta Bartl. [family ERICACEAE]
Filed as Erica distorta Bartl. [family ERICACEAE]
Type? of Erica murina Klotzsch ex Benth. pro syn. [family ERICACEAE]
Erica distorta Bartl. [family ERICACEAE]
Type of Erica haematocodon T.M.Salter [family ERICACEAE]
Type? of Erica murina Klotzsch ex Benth. pro syn. [family ERICACEAE]
Filed as Erica distorta Bartl. [family ERICACEAE]
Erica distorta Bartl. [family ERICACEAE]
Filed as Erica distorta Bartl. [family ERICACEAE]
Type of Erica distorta Bartl. [family ERICACEAE]
Filed as Erica distorta Bartl. [family ERICACEAE]
Syntype of Erica haematocodon T.M.Salter [family ERICACEAE]
Erica distorta Bartl. [family ERICACEAE]
Holotype of Erica aemula Guthrie&Bolus var. pubescens Guthrie&Bolus [family ERICACEAE]
Type? of Erica persoluta L. var. hispidula Benth. [family ERICACEAE]
Isotype of Erica aemula Guthrie & Bolus var. pubescens Guthrie & Bolus [family ERICACEAE]
Erica distorta Bartl. [family ERICACEAE]
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Identification
Erica aemula Guthrie&Bolus [family ERICACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Erica distorta Bartl. [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Erica persoluta
  • Erica setacea
  • Erica murina
  • Erica haematocodon
  • Erica aemula
  • Erica distorta

Flora

Entry for ERICA distorta Bartl. [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 distorta Bartl. [family ERICACEAE], in Linnæa, vii. 644
ERICA murina Klotzsch ex Benth. [family ERICACEAE], in DC. Prodr. vii. 679.
ERICA setacea E. Meyer ex Benth. [family ERICACEAE], l.c. 679.
ERICA persoluta Benth. var. hispidula [family ERICACEAE], l.c. 679, partly.
Information
mostly dwarf, diffuse, under 1 ft. high; branches numerous, ascending or divaricate, hirsute; leaves 4-nate, erect-incurved or spreading, linear, sulcate, thick, hirsute, 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long; flowers clustered, subcapitate; pedicels 1/2–1 lin. long or less; bracts remote, small; sepals linear to cuneate, acute, foliaceous, hirsute, under 1/2 lin. long; corolla urceolate-broad-cyathiform, pubescent, sometimes prominently veined, not widened to the mouth in the living state (when dried and compressed appearing widened), white turning brown, pale rose or crimson, 1–1 1/4 lin. long, and about as broad; limb usually spreading at maturity, broad and rounded, rarely subacute; anthers included, dorsifixed above the base, oblong, subobtuse, about 1/3 lin. long, subcristate; pore 3/5 the length of the cell; appendages from a broader ciliolate base narrowed to subulate-acuminate, about 1/2 the length of the cell; style exserted; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. null
Distribution
COAST REGION at 1500–2500 ft.: Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, Drège. Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Ecklon! Bolus, 4924! Constantia Berg, Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 8061! Marloth! Paarl Div.; Drakensteen Mountains near Bains Kloof, Bolus, 4052! French Hoek, Guthrie, 3739!
Notes
The shape of the corolla is nearly that of E. pusilla; but the habit (usually more divaricately-spreading), inflorescence, size of the anthers, and the shape of their appendages, are different. The latter closely resemble those of E. pubescens and E. hirtiflora. The species does not seem to occur frequently.

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