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Erica foliacea

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Name

Identification
Erica foliacea Andrews [family ERICACEAE ]
Related name
  • Erica foliacea

Flora

Entry for ERICA foliacea 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 foliacea Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 263;—Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 235; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 630.
Information
erect, 2–3 ft. high; branches stout, spreading or virgate, glabrous or puberulous (the plant entirely glabrous elsewhere); leaves 4-nate, somewhat spreading, curved, linear, rather stout, 3–5 lin. long; flowers 4–5-nate, on distant spreading lateral branchlets 1/2–1 in. long, upon pedicels 1/2 lin. long; bracts approximate, narrow-lanceolate, acute, rigid, keeled, margins scarious, 2–3 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but broader and a little longer; corolla tubular, mostly somewhat inflated, straight or slightly curved, distinctly contracted at the throat, dry, stout in texture, clear sulphur-yellow, 7–8 lin. long; limb subspreading, semi-ovate, short; awns included, oblong, scaberulous, 3/4 lin. long, aristate; awns 1 1/2–2 times the length of the cells; ovary glabrous, broad-based, sessile. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Ceres Div.; Cold Bokkeveld, in moist places, 5000 ft., Schlechter, 8925!COAST REGION Caledon Div.; without precise locality, Bolus, 6870! Var. β: Caledon Div.; Klein Houw Hoek, Niven, 173! near the mouth of Klein River, Masson, 114! mountains near Palmiet River and near Lowrys Pass, Ecklon & Zeyher, Guthrie, 3551! 3766!
Notes
Taking Andrews' figure as the type, the specimens first above cited are the only ones we have seen which entirely agree with it. Klotzsch's var. has a very different appearance, usually more resembling E. abietina, yet quite distinct from that by its 4-nate flowers, besides other characters; but the floral differences of var. fulgens from the type are not considerable. Bentham appears to have described from the variety, which seems to be much more frequent than Andrews' type. In its flowers it also resembles E. nana, but the corolla is somewhat smaller, the ovary quite sessile and broad-based, and the habit very different.

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