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Erica massonia

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Identification
Erica massonia Andr. [family ERICACEAE ]
Related name
  • Erica massonia

Flora

Entry for ERICA Massoni Linn. f. [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 Massoni Linn. f. [family ERICACEAE], Suppl. 221;—Thunb. Diss. Erica, 27, t. 3; Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 20; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 26, 6; Bot. Mag. t. 356; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1069; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 638.
ERICA Massonia Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 128, and Col. Heaths, t. 36.
ERICA lycopodiifolia Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], Prodr. 294, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 361.
Information
erect, 1–1 1/2 ft. high; branches spreading; leaves 4–6-nate, closely crowded and densely imbricate, erect or subspreading, oblong, obtuse, flat, long-ciliate, 2 lin. long; umbels 5–10-flowered; pedicels lanate, 4 lin. long; bracts subremote, long-haired, 2 lin. long; sepals lanceolate or oblong, blunt, sulcate, glossy, very viscid, more or less long-hairy, 2–2 1/2 lin. long; corolla tubular, asymmetrically inflated, subglobosely swollen below the mouth, extremely viscid, red or orange with a green limb, about 1 in. long; stamens subincluded; filaments capillary, thickened and curved at the insertion of the oblong dorsifixed muticous anther. null
Distribution
COAST REGION on mountains, 1000–3500 ft.: Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland, Thunberg! Niven, 170! Zeyher, 3180! Bolus, 4171! and in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 16! Caledon Div.; near Palmiet River, Burchell, 8173! Klein Houw Hoek, Niven, 169! Houw Hoek Mountains, Burchell, 8155! Guthrie, 2298!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Herb. Salisbury! Var. β: cultivated specimen!
Notes
Very distinct from the preceding by its habit and its hairy, usually close-pressed leaves; the anther is also different. The var. β is unknown to us except from the figures quoted. As the large-flowered form is related to E. squarrosa, so is this variety to our E. Gysbertii, of the same section.

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