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Erica filamentosa

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Filed as Erica filamentosa Andrews [family ERICACEAE]
Syntype of Erica filamentosa Andrews variety longiflora Bolus [family ERICACEAE]
Syntype of Erica filamentosa Andrews variety longiflora Bolus [family ERICACEAE]
Type of Erica nematophylla Guthrie & Bolus [family ERICACEAE]
Holotype of Erica filamentosa Andrews var. longiflora Bolus [family ERICACEAE]
Isosyntype of Erica filamentosa Andrews var. longiflora Bolus [family ERICACEAE]
Syntype of Erica filamentosa Andrews variety longiflora Bolus [family ERICACEAE]
Erica filamentosa Andrews var. longiflora Bolus [family ERICACEAE]
Isotype of Erica filamentosa Andrews var. longiflora Bolus [family ERICACEAE]
Syntype of Erica filamentosa Andrews var. longiflora Bolus [family ERICACEAE]
Filed as Erica filamentosa Andrews [family ERICACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Erica filamentosa Andrews [family ERICACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Erica nematophylla Guthrie&Bolus [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Bentham, 1881
Related name
  • Erica nivenia
  • Erica filamentosa
  • Erica nematophylla
  • Erica rachii

Flora

Entry for ERICA filamentosa Andr. [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 filamentosa Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 22;—Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 91; Bot. Reg. t. 6; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 395; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 664.
Information
slender, erect, 1–1 1/2 ft. high; branches subvirgate, puberulous, channelled between the long prominent leaf-cushions; leaves 6-nate or irregular and somewhat scattered, erect-incurved, crowded, tremulous, slender-linear, acute, round-backed or keeled, sulcate, glabrous, 5–7 lin. long, about 1/4 lin. wide; petioles pallid, about 1 lin. long, 1/12 lin. wide; inflorescence axillary, crowded towards the ends of the branches; pedicels slender, 4–6 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals linear from a short ovate or lanceolate base, acuminate, coloured, 2 lin. long; corolla obconic- or subobconic-tubular, much wider at the mouth than at the base, glabrous or minutely puberulous, dry, rosy, 4–4 1/2 lin. long; anthers included, dorsifixed just above the base, oblong, obtuse, 2/3– 4/5 lin. long, muticous; pore a little under or over 1/2 the length of the cell; style at length exserted; stigma capitellate; ovary exactly that of the two preceding species. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Swellendam Div.; mountains near Swellendam, 400–1500 ft., Niven, 183! Mund, 12! MacOwan, Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1494! also cultivated specimens! Var. β: Swellendam Div.; mountain ridges along the lower part of the River Zondereinde, Zeyher, 3171! Caledon Div.: without collector's name or number, Cape Govt. Herb.!
Notes
Closely allied to the two preceding species; and not improbably, when more ample material of the two latter is available, it will be thought better to unite all three as forms of one variable species. Here as elsewhere in this section we have a distinct link with the § Hermes, in which indeed the present species was included by Bentham.

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