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Erica intervallaris

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Identification
Erica intervallaris Salisb. [family ERICACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Erica duthieae L.Bolus [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Erica elongata
  • Erica unrecorded
  • Erica alopeculoides
  • Erica duthieae
  • Erica intervallaris

Flora

Entry for ERICA intervallaris Salisb. [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 intervallaris Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 375
ERICA alopecuroides Wendl. [family ERICACEAE], Eric. Ic. fasc. 20, 119, t. 45, not of Lodd.
Information
erect, 1–1 1/2 ft. high; branches many, virgate, slender, pubescent or pilose; leaves 4-nate, incurved-erect to squarrose, narrow-linear, sulcate, pubescent, glabrescent, 1–1 1/2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, mostly densely crowded on short branchlets along the branches, forming a pseudoraceme; pedicels very short; bracts remote, small; sepals linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, rarely broad-ovate, acuminate, glabrous, ciliate, or sometimes naked, usually smooth and glossy, coloured, 1–1 1/4 lin. long; corolla narrow-cyathiform, or suburceolate-cyathiform, mouth scarcely contracted, tetragonous, glabrous or more rarely with a fine and scanty pubescence, bright rosy-red, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; segments erect or spreading, rounded, 1/4– 1/2 the length of the tube; anthers included, dorsifixed above the base, narrow-oblong, obtuse, about 1/3 lin. long, aristate; awns slender, rough-edged, 1/2 the length of the cell; style included; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous or puberulous. null
Distribution
COAST REGION at 1000–4800 ft.: Cape Div.; near Wynberg, Niven, 27! Stellenbosch Div.; mountains of Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8211! Niven, 26! MacOwan, Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1773! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek Mountains, Burchell, 8141! Schlechter, 7780! Hottentots Holland Mountains, eastern side, Guthrie, 2048! Bolus, 5549! Zoetemelks Vlei, Grisbrook! near Appels Kraal, Zeyher, 3205β! Genadendal Mountain, Galpin, 3704! Bredasdorp Div.; near Elim, Guthrie! Var. β: Caledon Div.; near the Palmiet River, Guthrie, 3548!
Notes
This species is so near to some forms of E. parviflora that we admit it with some doubt. Yet even as a variety of that species it would be well marked by its usually larger and more membranous sepals, its much less hairy leaves, sepals, and (usually quite glabrous) corolla, its pseudo-racemose inflorescence, and its more virgate graceful habit. It is usually found, and often in abundance, growing along the margins of streams, or watercourses which are streams in winter, in which respect also it differs from the preceding. Our var. β looks different in habit from the ordinary form, and seems to connect with E. cyrillæflora. But the anther is exactly that of this species, and as we have only a single specimen we do not venture to make a species of it.

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