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Erica mauritanica

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Name

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

Flora

Entry for ERICA viridipurpurea 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 viridipurpurea Linn. [family ERICACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 353
ERICA mauritanica Linn. [family ERICACEAE], Syst. ed. 10, 1002, Diss. Erica, n. 9, with fig. of fl., and Amœn. Acad. viii. 59, n. 9.
ERICA pelviformis Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], Prodr. 298, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 376.
ERICA persoluta Curt. [family ERICACEAE], Bot. Mag. t. 342, and Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 14, 27, not of Linn.
ERICA regerminans Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 235, and Col. Heaths, t. 265, not of Linn.
ERICA leucantha G. Don [family ERICACEAE], Gen. Syst. iii. 792.
ERICA virescens Thunb. [family ERICACEAE], Diss. Erica, 37?
ERICA multumbellifera Hort. ex Benth. [family ERICACEAE], in DC. Prodr. vii 679.
Information
erect, graceful, not much spreading, 1–2 ft. high; branches subvirgate, pubescent; leaves more or less erect or incurved, imbricate, linear, round-backed, ciliate or naked, glabrous, 1–2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, often clustered; pedicels about 1 lin. long; bracts remote, very small; sepals ovate-lanceolate, keel-tipped, ciliate or naked, usually rosy, 1/2– 3/4 lin. long; corolla obconic-campanulate, slightly widened at the mouth, red, 1–1 1/4 lin. long; segments slightly spreading, nearly equal to the tube, with the interstices rounded at the base, open and obvious in bud; anthers almost exactly those of E. cyathiformis, but slightly larger (.018 in. long);style included; stigma peltate-capitate; ovary glabrous. null
Distribution
COAST REGION from 100–2800 ft.: Worcester Div., Cooper, 1596! Cape Div.; common on the mountains and Flats around Cape Town, Burchell, 8564! Bolus, 1203! 2956! Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 758! Wolley Dod, 175! Caledon Div.; mountains of Klein River Kloof, Zeyher, 3260!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Drège, 7760! Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated specimens!

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