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Erica parviflora

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Identification
Erica parviflora L. [family ERICACEAE ]
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  • Erica parviflora

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Entry for ERICA parviflora 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 parviflora Linn. [family ERICACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 506;—Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 675.
ERICA pubescens Bot. [family ERICACEAE], Mag. t. 480, not of Linn.; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 6, 11.
ERICA pubescens Andr. var. minima [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 39, and Col. Heaths, t. 124.
ERICA tubiuscula Sinclair [family ERICACEAE], Hort. Eric. Wob. 26; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1157.
ERICA tardiflora Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 373.
Information
erect, 1–3 ft. high; branches ascending or slender and diffuse, usually with long and short hairs intermixed; leaves 4-nate, spreading to squarrose, linear, sulcate, closely or sparsely hairy, 1–2 1/2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate; pedicels 1/2–1 1/2 lin. long; bracts remote and small; sepals linear, or linear-lanceolate, rarely ovate-lanceolate, subfoliaceous, coloured, 1/2–1 lin. long; corolla urceolate, mouth slightly contracted, finely puberulous to coarsely hirsute, red or pink, 1–2 lin. long; segments rounded, generally spreading, about 1/4 the length of the tube; filaments slender; anthers included, dorsifixed at or near the base, oblong, obtuse, aristate, rarely muticous; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; cell from 1/5 to over 1/4 lin. long; awns linear, rough-edged, from 2/3 the length of the cell to about as long as it, style included to subexserted; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Worcester Div.; near Worcester, Rehmann, 2527! Cape Div.; hills and flats around Cape Town, Thunberg, Burchell, 70! 100! 312! 847! 8440! Niven, 28! Zeyher, 1099! Bolus, 3707! Sieber, 75! 198! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, Zeyher, 3206! near the Palmiet River, Bolus, 4174! Zwart Berg, Bolus, 6748! Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam, Mund, 51! near the Zondereinde River, Zeyher, 3225! Var. β: Paarl Div.; near Paarl, Burchell, 951! Caledon Div.; near Villiersdorp, Bolus, 5179! Bredasdorp Div.; between Elim and Napier, 8458! Schlechter, 7692! Var. γ: Caledon Div.; near Grietjes Gat, Ecklon & Zeyher (ex Klotzsch). Var. δ: Worcester Div.; Breede River Valley, near Bains Kloof, Bolus, 2958! Guthrie, 2076! Cape Div.; Cape Flats, Ecklon (ex Bartling). Var. ε: Stellenbosch Div.; Lowrys Pass, Schlechter, 7809! Var. ζ: Paarl Div.; near Bains Kloof, Bolus, 4050! Tulbagh or Ceres Div.; Mitchells Pass, Schlechter, 8954!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, the type and vars. β and δ, Drège! Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated specimens! Var. ε: Bolus, 4174!
Notes
Somewhat resembling E. pusilla but with longer and narrower corollas; also in some of its forms approaching E. intervallaris.

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