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Erica flocciflora

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Isotype of Erica flocciflora Bentham [family ERICACEAE]
Type of Erica flocciflora unrecorded [family ERICACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Isotype of Erica flocciflora Bentham [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Benth., 1839
Related name
  • Erica unrecorded
  • Erica flocciflora

Flora

Entry for ERICA flocciflora Benth. [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 flocciflora Benth. [family ERICACEAE], in DC. Prodr. vii. 660
Information
branches long and somewhat virgate, the younger cano-pubescent; leaves 4-nate, erect (at least the younger), oblong-linear, obtuse, keeled, sulcate, the younger tomentose-lanate, the older glabrous and glossy, about 2 lin. long; flowers mostly terminal, 3-nate (or “occasionally lateral?” Bentham); pedicels tomentose, stout, 4 lin. long; bracts subapproximate, floccose-lanate; sepals ovate-oblong, subobtuse, keel-tipped, densely floccose-lanate, subscarious, 2 lin. long; corolla urceolate, mouth at maturity much contracted, tomentose, viscid, thick, 2 1/2–3 lin. long; limb short, erect; anthers “broadly-crested” (Bentham); style exserted; stigma clavate; capsule nearly as large as the corolla, with a conical top, smooth, glossy, glabrous. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Uniondale Div.; rocky hill near Groot River in the Long Kloof, near the village of Haarlem, Burchell, 4992!
Notes
Very different from any other species in this section by the peculiar indumentum on its sepals. Unfortunately, Burchell's specimens are fructiferous, and we have been unable to find an anther.

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