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Erica obliqua

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Filed as Erica obliqua Thunb. [family ERICACEAE]
Filed as Erica obliqua [family ERICACEAE]
Filed as Erica obliqua Thunb. [family ERICACEAE]
Type of Erica macroloma Benth. [family ERICACEAE]
Filed as Erica obliqua Aiton [family ERICACEAE]
Erica obliqua Thunb. [family ERICACEAE]
Filed as Erica obliqua [family ERICACEAE]
Filed as Erica obliqua Thunb. [family ERICACEAE]
Filed as Erica obliqua Thunb. [family ERICACEAE]
Filed as Erica obliqua Thunb. [family ERICACEAE]
Type? of Erica obliqua Thunb. [family ERICACEAE]
Filed as Erica obliqua Thunb. [family ERICACEAE]
Type of Erica obliqua Thunb. [family ERICACEAE]
Filed as Erica obliqua Aiton [family ERICACEAE]
Type? of Erica axilliflora Bartl. [family ERICACEAE]
Erica obliqua Thunb. [family ERICACEAE]
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Identification
Erica obliqua Thunb. [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Erica axilliflora
  • Erica obliqua
  • Erica unrecorded
  • Erica pilulifera
  • Erica macroloma

Flora

Entry for ERICA obliqua Thunb. [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 obliqua Thunb. [family ERICACEAE], Diss. Erica, 44, t. 1;—Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 3; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 17, 77, t. 30; Andr. Heathery, t. 33, and Col. Heaths, t. 42; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 14; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 661.
Information
erect, entirely glabrous, 1–1 1/2 ft. high; branches few, subsimple, virgate, densely leafy; leaves scattered, spreading, crowded, long-petiolate, narrow-linear, obtuse, slender, sulcate, glabrous, 3–5 lin. long; flowers terminal and sublateral at the ends of the branches, umbellate; pedicels spreading, slender, viscid glandular, 4–8 lin. long; bracts remote, linear; sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse, somewhat laxly set, thick, concave, viscid, 1/2– 3/4 lin. long; corolla ovoid-urceolate, constricted at the throat, thick, viscid, glabrous or often minutely hispidulous on the upper part, 3 1/2–4 lin. long; segments erect or subspreading, large, 1/3– 1/2 the length of the tube; filaments dilated at the apex; anthers included, dorsifixed shortly above the base, linear-cuneate or semiovate, acute, smooth, glabrous, 2/3–1 lin. long, cristate; pore 1/2– 2/3 the length of the cell; crests semiorbicular, coarsely dentate, about 1/2 the length of the cell; style included; stigma capitellate; ovary stipitate, glabrous. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; Muizenberg Mountain, 1400 ft., Bolus, 4518! Guthrie, 321! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 25! Table Mountain, Wolley Dod, 814! near Simons Town, Wolley Dod, 812! Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland Mountains, Zeyher, 3211! Thunberg. Caledon Div.; between Palmiet River and Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8184! Houw Hoek Mountains, Burchell, 8032! 8101! Galpin, 3641! Guthrie, 2288!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Herb. Salisbury!
Notes
In structure, and especially by the stipitate ovary, this and the following species are near to E. inflata, Thunb., and form a link with the § Ceramus.

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