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Erica fastigiata

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Identification
Erica fastigiata L. [family ERICACEAE ]
Related name
  • Erica fastigiata

Flora

Entry for ERICA fastigiata 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 fastigiata Linn. [family ERICACEAE], Mant. 66, not of Andr.;—Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 19, 103, t. 39?; Bot. Mag. t. 2084; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 646; var. ciliata, Rach in Linnæa, xxvi. 778?
ERICA fasciformis Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 382.
ERICA mundula Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 273, and Col. Heaths, t. 249; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 114.
ERICA humeana Lodd. [family ERICACEAE], l.c. t. 389.
Information
erect, 1–1 1/4 ft. high; branches flexuous or subvirgate; internodes elongating on the upper branches; leaves erect or spreading, crowded below, incurved, linear, acute, glabrous, about 3 lin. long; flowers subsessile; bracts approximate, lanceolate-linear or subulate-linear, acute, keeled, scarious, 3 lin. long; sepals like the bracts, but somewhat longer, 3–6 lin. long; corolla-tube cylindrical, sometimes slightly inflated below, sometimes at the throat, glabrous, red or rosy, about 5 lin. long; limb subovoid, mealy, white, dark-centred, 1 1/2 lin. long, 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. wide; anthers oblong or suboval, pallid, 5/12 lin. long, muticous; pore 1/4– 1/3 the length of the cell; style included. null
Distribution
COAST REGION ascending from 1500–3500 ft.: Ceres Div.; near Ceres, Bolus, 9811! Worcester Div.; near Worcester; Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 3887! Paarl Div.; French Hoek, Thunberg, Guthrie, 3238! Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Schlechter, 933! Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland, Mund, 16! Thunberg. Lowrys Pass, Guthrie, 3875! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, Bolus, 5455! Schlechter, 5385! Guthrie, 3874! Riversdale Div.; Platte Kloof, Masson (ex Salisbury), Thunberg. Var β: Caledon Div.; Klein River Mountains, Zeyher, 3199! mountains near Vogel Gat, Schlechter, 9549! and near Hermanus, Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 6484! Var. γ: Paarl Div.: mountains around French Hoek, Bolus, 9183! Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 4974!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, specimen from Herb. Linnæus in Herb. Salisbury! Thunberg, sheet β. Also cultivated specimens of type and var. β!
Notes
This species has been much confused in herbaria. In Salisbury's herb. at Kew is a branchlet marked “from Linnæus's type.” We have dissected a flower and compared it with the specimens first cited above as the typical form. Our var. β was regarded by Bentham as a hybrid from E. pavettæflora. It does not seem to be a hybrid, but a maritime form; very local, its stations being within five, or possibly three, miles from each other. Var. γ, in aspect, resembles E. hyacinthoides, but the leaves are larger and the sepals very different. Wendland's fig. in Eric. Ic. fasc. 19, can only be cited with doubt. Its sepals are broader and shorter than in the wild specimens before us.

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