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Erica leptopus

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Type of Erica leptopus Benth. [family ERICACEAE]
Holotype of Erica leptopus Benth. var. piquetbergensis Bolus [family ERICACEAE]
Type of Erica leptopus Benth. [family ERICACEAE]
Isotype of Erica leptopus Benth. var. piquetbergensis Bolus [family ERICACEAE]
Syntype of Erica leptopus Benth. var. breviloba Bolus [family ERICACEAE]
Filed as Erica corifolia L. [family ERICACEAE]
Erica leptopus Benth. [family ERICACEAE]
Isotype of Erica leptopus Benth. [family ERICACEAE]
Type of Erica leptopus Benth. [family ERICACEAE]
Type of Erica leptopus Benth. [family ERICACEAE]
Erica leptopus Benth. [family ERICACEAE]
Syntype of Erica leptopus Benth. var. breviloba Bolus [family ERICACEAE]
Erica vanheurckii Müll.Arg. [family ERICACEAE]
Type? of Erica leptopus Benth. [family ERICACEAE]
Erica vanheurckii Müll.Arg. [family ERICACEAE]
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Identification
Erica leptopus Benth. [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Erica patula
  • Erica aristata
  • Erica leptopus
  • Erica vanheurckii

Flora

Entry for ERICA leptopus 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
ERICA leptopus Benth. [family ERICACEAE], in DC. Prodr. vii. 680
ERICA patula E. Meyer ex Benth. [family ERICACEAE], l.c.
Information
erect, 1 ft. high or less; branches ascending, slender, puberulous or nearly glabrous; leaves mostly erect, generally subdistant on the flowering branches, linear, sulcate, glabrous, 1–2 lin. long; umbels 4–6-flowered; pedicels at length decurved, slender, 1–2 1/2 lin. long; bracts variable, small, either all subremote or subapproximate, or the lowest larger and median, the upper minute; sepals linear-subulate, acute, rather thick, 3/4 lin. long, reaching about 1/2 the length of the corolla; corolla broad-cyathiform, about 1 lin. long, when dry and compressed wider at the mouth than its length; segments continuous with and about 2/3 the length of the tube; filaments very narrow, equal, nearly straight; anthers obliquely ovate, 1/4 lin. long; awns subulate, coarsely serrulate, nearly 2/3 the length of the cell; style included; stigma capitellate or subsimple; ovary glabrous. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Var. β: Piquetberg Div.; summit of Piquet Berg, 2200 ft., Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 6964! Var. γ: Clanwilliam Div.; summit of Sneeuw Kop, 6300 ft., Leipoldt, 615! Worcester Div.; on the Matroos Berg, 5700 ft., Bolus, 6365!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, distributed as “E. patula, E. M.,” Drège!
Notes
We have had only a frustule of Drège's type specimen; but good material of the others cited.

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