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Erica nivalis

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Name

Identification
Erica peziza Lodd. [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Erica nivalis Andrews [family ERICACEAE ]
Related name
  • Erica peziza
  • Erica tomentosa
  • Erica pannosa
  • Erica nivalis

Flora

Entry for ERICA nivalis Andr. [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 nivalis Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 274;—Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 250; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 674.
Information
erect, branched, 1 ft. or more high; leaves 3-nate, from subpatent to squarrose, linear, obtuse, glabrous, straight, 2–3 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, subcernuous; pedicels about 2 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals lanceolate, acute, about 1 lin. long; corolla globose-urceolate, mouth much contracted, covered with soft hairs, white, 2 1/2 lin. long; limb very small; segments erect or subconnivent; anthers included, oblong-cuneate, aristate; style included; stigma capitellate. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Locality unknown.
Notes
The specimens we have seen under this name belong to E. Peziza, Lodd. We have seen no authentic specimen of this species, but accept Andrews' t. 274, with its accompanying description as the type. The shape of the corolla is there so different from that of E. Peziza, that it is quite impossible to regard the two as one species.

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