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

Flora

Entry for ERICA conspicua Soland. [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 conspicua Soland. [family ERICACEAE], in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, ii. 22;—Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 12; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 4, 9; Andr. Heathery, t. 12, and Col. Heaths, t. 14; Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 359.
ERICA inconspicua Thunb. [family ERICACEAE], Prodr. 71 (sphalm.).
ERICA longiflora Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], l.c. 359; Andr. Heathery, t. 222, and Col. Heaths, t. 183; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 983.
ERICA elata Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 112, and Col. Heaths, t. 87; Lodd. l.c. t. 1788.
ERICA splendens Wendl. [family ERICACEAE], Eric. Ic. fasc. 8, 5, not of Andr.
ERICA laniflora Wendl. [family ERICACEAE], l.c. fasc. 2, 23.
ERICA laniflora Wendl. var. glabra [family ERICACEAE], l.c. fasc. 19, 105, t. 40.
ERICA lanata Wendl. [family ERICACEAE], l.c. fasc. 5, 5.
ERICA sordida Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 191, and Col. Heaths, t. 60; Lodd. l.c. t. 1973.
ERICA floccosa Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], l.c. 360, not of Bartl.
ERICA verticillaris Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], l.c. 360, not of Bartl.
Information
2–3 ft. high; branches subvirgate, variably pubescent, rarely glabrous, usually covered with many short branchlets, the uppermost only bearing flowers; leaves 4-nate, slightly spreading, imbricate, linear to sublanceolate, pubescent, villous or rarely glabrous, 1–2 lin. long; flowers solitary, more rarely 2–4-nate; pedicels 1–2 lin. long; bracts subremote, sepal-like, oblong, very obtuse, or linear, 2–2 1/2 lin. long; sepals from ovate subacute to lanceolate acuminate, subscarious, with a thick keel or boss at the apex, pilose or glabrous, 3–4 1/2 lin. long; corolla clavate-tubular, incurved, variably hairy or more rarely glabrous, dry, 9–20 (mostly 15–18) lin. long, rosy, dull red, or yellow; limb oblong, spreading or recurved, 2–2 1/2 lin. long; filaments somewhat broad at the base, occasionally thinly pilose; anthers included or subexserted, oblong, affixed shortly below the middle of the cell, distinctly curved forwards in front, 1 1/4–1 1/2 lin. long, muticous or sometimes minutely decurrent-denticulate; ovary glabrous. null
Distribution
COAST REGION on mountains, 700–1000 ft.: Worcester Div.; near Worcester, Rehmann, 2529! in the Goudini, Bolus, 5171! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 231! Paarl Div.; near Wellington, in Cape Gov. Herb.; French Hoek, MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 936! Bolus, 5169! Schlechter, 9320! Caledon Div.; Zwart Berg, Masson, 51! near the Zondereinde River, Schlechter, 9888! Also cultivated specimens!
Notes
A distinct species well characterized by its small subremote bracts and its anthers. We are unable, however, to find any serviceable definitions for its varieties. Var. glabra (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 633) appears only to be known from garden specimens.

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