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Erica hirtiflora

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Identification
Erica hirtiflora Curtis [family ERICACEAE ]
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  • Erica hirtiflora

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Entry for ERICA hirtiflora Curt. [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 hirtiflora Curt. [family ERICACEAE], Bot. Mag. t. 481;—Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 674.
ERICA pubescens Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 37, and Col. Heaths t. 48; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 167, not of Linn.
ERICA pubescens Wendl. var. pilosa [family ERICACEAE], Eric. Ic. fasc. 15, 41, t. 16.
ERICA pubescens Thunb. var. hispida [family ERICACEAE], Diss. Erica, 39, and of his Herb. (according to Rach).
ERICA mitræformis Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 372.
ERICA tardiflora [family ERICACEAE], Salisb. Herb., but scarcely of his descr. l.c. 373 (according to Benth.).
ERICA puberula Bartl. [family ERICACEAE], in Linnæa, vii. 644, not of Klotzsch.
ERICA grisea Klotzsch, ex Benth. [family ERICACEAE], l.c. 674.
ERICA minima Pritz [family ERICACEAE], Ic. Bot. Ind. i. 417.
ERICA ovata Lodd. [family ERICACEAE], Bot. Cab. t. 417.
Information
erect, 1–2 ft. high; branches stout, hirsute; leaves 4-nate, incurvo-patent to squarrose, linear, obtuse, sulcate, hirsute and rough with minute whitish tubercles at the base of the hairs, 1–2 lin. long; petiole somewhat long; flowers 4-nate; pedicels hirsute, 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals lanceolate, hirsute, foliaceous, 1/2–1 lin. long; corolla ovoid-urceolate, or more rarely broad-urceolate, throat contracted, roughly tuberculate-hirsute (as the leaves), pale purple, usually darker at the apex, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; segments spreading, about 1/4 or more rarely 1/2 the length of the tube; filaments slender; anthers included, dorsifixed, ovate-cuneate, subacute or obtuse, sparsely hispidulous below, 1/5 lin. long, aristate or subcristate; pore narrow-elliptical, less than 1/2 the length of the cell; awns broad-linear, pale brown, ciliate with long thickish hairs, as long as or longer than the cell; style included, slender; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Malmesbury Div.; Saldanha Bay, Niven, 24! Cape Div.; mountains near Cape Town, Thunberg, Ecklon, 291! Burchell, 627! 8407! Bolus, 3296! 3718! and in Herb. Norm. Aust-Afr., 33! Guthrie, 1450! 1177! Wolley Dod, 588! 824! Simons Bay, Milne, 110! MacGillivray, 447! Caledon Div.; Nieuw Kloof, Houw Hoek Mountains, Burchell, 8142! Swellendam Div.; near the Zondereinde River, Zeyher, 1098!
Notes
Nearest to E. mollis. This is the only heath known to us which, by its sub-social growth, gives, in some favourable seasons, a colouring to the eastern slopes of Table Mountain which may be seen at a considerable distance, like that of the similar E. cinerea, L., on the Scottish mountains. Bentham makes two varieties, dependent on the size of the flower; but we find intermediate sizes. The synonymy, as Bentham observes, is very confused. We have done our best to unravel it, but have been obliged, in great part, to follow him.

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