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Erica mammosa

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Name

Identification
Erica mammosa L. [family ERICACEAE ]
Related name
  • Erica mammosa

Flora

Entry for ERICA mammosa Linn. [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 mammosa Linn. [family ERICACEAE], Mant. alt. 234;—Andr. Heathery, tt. 124, 125 (var. minor), and Col. Heaths, t. 33, and 184, not of Thunb.; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 125, 951 (var. pallida). Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 624.
ERICA abietina Berg. [family ERICACEAE], Pl. Cap. 105; Thunb. Diss. Erica, 42, not of Linn.
ERICA laxa Lam. [family ERICACEAE], Encycl. i. 480, not of others.
ERICA verticillata Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 48, and Col. Heaths, t. 66; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 145, not of Berg.
ERICA quadrifossa Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], Prodr. 293.
ERICA coralloides Hort. ex Tausch [family ERICACEAE], in Flora, 1834, 600.
ERICA speciosa Schneev. [family ERICACEAE], Ic. Pl. Rar. t. 3.
Information
erect, 1–4 ft. high; branches generally few, ascending, sometimes virgate, leafy above, naked below; leaves 4-nate or scattered, erect-spreading, linear-lanceolate, subacute, 3–5 lin. long; flowers in a loose or congested raceme; pedicels 1–2 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals ovate, acute, keeled, scarious, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; corolla tubular, slightly inflated, glabrous, dry, 4-foveolate at the base, 6–12 (mostly 8–10) lin. long, purple-red, scarlet or white; limb short, erect, concolorous; filaments capillary; anthers included, lateral, oblong or cuneate, mostly with a sharp basal point in front, about 1 lin. long, aristate, awns of variable length; ovary glabrous. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Ceres Div.; Cold Bokkeveld, Schlechter, 10115!COAST REGION common from near sea level to 4600 ft.: Piquetberg Div.; Zeyher, 1087! 1088! Paarl Div.; Drakensteen Mountains, MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 7! 7b! Paarl Mountain, Drège! Cape Div.; on hills and flats, Burchell, 551! 704! 8540! Bolus, 2951! 3354! Stellenbosch Div.; near Jonkers Hoek, Burchell, 8309! Caledon Div.; Baviaans Kloof, &c., Burchell, 7786! 7582! Bot River, Zeyher, 1075!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg, and cultivated specimens!

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