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Erica labialis

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Name

Identification
Sympieza breviflora N.E.Br. [family ERICACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Erica labialis Salisb. [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Sympieza pallescens
  • Sympieza brachyphylla
  • Sympieza labialis
  • Sympieza capitellata
  • Erica labialis
  • Sympieza tenuiflora
  • Sympieza breviflora
  • Sympieza not on sheet
  • Sympieza vestita

Flora

Entry for SYMPIEZA brachyphylla 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
SYMPIEZA brachyphylla Benth. [family ERICACEAE], in DC. Prodr. vii. 706;—Rach in Linnæa, xxvi. 791.
Erica labialis Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 340.
Erica capitella Thunb. Herb. ex Rach [family ERICACEAE], in Linnæa, l.c.
Information
much branched; branchlets minutely puberulous; leaves 3-nate, imbricate, straight or incurved, 2/3–1 1/4 lin. long, usually ovate, sometimes linear-oblong, glabrous, sometimes with a minute denticulation on the acute edges, usually smooth and often shining; flower-heads 2–2 1/2 lin. in diam.; calyx of the lower flowers 2/3– 3/4 lin. long, 1/2– 2/3 lin. broad, coriaceous; tube subquadrate, glabrous; lobes broadly deltoid, obtuse or subacute, usually distinctly ciliate, rarely nearly without cilia; corolla 1 1/3–1 2/3 lin. long, the exserted part not more than 1 1/4 times as long as the calyx, 1/2 to nearly 1 lin. broad at the tips of the lobes when flattened, and of nearly equal diameter nearly or quite down to the calyx, then narrowed to the base within the calyx; anthers 1/2 lin. long, linear-oblong; stigma very slightly thickened. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; mountains near Muizenberg, Burke! Smitwinkle Vley, Wolley Dod, 3039! mountain near Simonstown, Bolus, 7005! MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 39!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg! Masson! Forbes! Mund!
Notes
Thunberg's specimen, named E. capitella in his herbarium, is identical with Masson's specimens on which Salisbury founded his Erica labialis!

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