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Erica pellucida

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Name

Identification
Erica pellucida Sol. ex Salisb. [family ERICACEAE ]
Related name
  • Erica pellucida

Flora

Entry for ERICA glandulosa 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 glandulosa Thunb. [family ERICACEAE], Diss. Erica, 25
ERICA pellucida Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, tt. 183, 277 (var. rubra), and Col. Heaths, t. 197; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 276; Klotzsch in Linnæa, ix. 675.
ERICA exudans Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 216.
ERICA exsudans Lodd. [family ERICACEAE], l.c. t. 287.
ERICA droseræfolia Tausch [family ERICACEAE], in Flora, 1834, 600?
Information
erect, 2 ft. or more high, all parts more or less covered with gland-tipped hairs; leaves 4-nate, spreading, linear, obtuse, sulcate or sometimes somewhat open-backed, 2–5 lin. long; flowers usually 4-nate (sometimes 2–5-nate); pedicels 2–3 lin. long; bracts approximate, foliaceous, linear or broad linear; sepals broad linear, acute, 3–4 1/2 lin. long; corolla clavate-tubular, mostly pubescent, rarely glabrous, dry or glandular-viscid, 9–13 lin. long; filaments slender, not, or only very slightly, dilated at the base; anthers included or subexserted, oblong, curved forwards at the base, muticous, about 1 lin. long; ovary glabrous. null
Distribution
COAST REGION frequent between 150–800 ft.: Mossel Bay Div.; Attaquas Kloof, Masson, 109! George Div.; between George and Malgat River, Burchell, 6097! Bolus, 5520! 8671! Outeniqualand, Niven, 189! Humansdorp Div.; near the Gamtoos River, Niven, 186! by the Kromme River, Masson, 108! Uitenhage Div.; near Van Stadens Hoogte, MacOwan, 1124! Port Elizabeth Div., Burchell, 4576! Pappe! Var. β: Humansdorp Div.; between Gamtoos River and Leuwenbosch River, Burchell, 4803!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg. Also cultivated specimens!

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