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Erica plukeneti

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Name

Identification
Erica plukeneti P.J.Bergius [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Bräuchler, C., 2012
Related name
  • Erica plukenetii
  • Erica plukeneti

Flora

Entry for ERICA Plukeneti 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 Plukeneti Linn. [family ERICACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 356
ERICA Plukenetii Wendl. var. pinifolia [family ERICACEAE], Beobacht. 45
ERICA Plukenetii Wendl. var. pinea [family ERICACEAE], Eric. Ic. fasc. 1, 9
ERICA Plukenetii Wendl. var. interrupta [family ERICACEAE], Beobacht. 46 and Eric. Ic. fasc. 2, 21, and fasc. 22, 147, t. 55.
ERICA Plukenetii Wendl. var. inflata [family ERICACEAE], Beobacht. 46 and Eric. Ic. fasc. 2, 21, and fasc. 22, 147, t. 55.
ERICA Plukenetia Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 186
ERICA Plukenetia Andr. var. nana [family ERICACEAE], l.c. t. 139, 187, and Col. Heaths, t. 47, 256.
ERICA Plukenetia Andr. var. albens [family ERICACEAE], l.c. t. 139, 187, and Col. Heaths, t. 47, 256.
ERICA plukenetiana Bauer [family ERICACEAE], Exot. Pl. t. 9; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1274.
ERICA Plukenetii Berg. [family ERICACEAE], Descr. Pl. Cap. 91; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 622.
ERICA penicillata Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 135, and Col. Heaths, t. 116, not of Benth.; Lodd. l.c. t. 1918.
ERICA fusiformis Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], Prodr. 297, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 345.
ERICA adenostoma Kunze [family ERICACEAE], in Linnæa, xx. 38.
Information
erect, glabrous, 1–2 ft. high; leaves spreading, usually densely imbricate, linear, subtrigonous, mostly 6–8 rarely 11 lin. long; inflorescence generally pseudo-axillary, sometimes obviously terminal; pedicels 4–6 lin. long; sepals ovate-lanceolate to narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, very concave, 2–5 lin. long; corolla tubular, more or less inflated towards the base, 5 1/2–9 lin. long, from twice to four times as long as the sepals, red-orange or whitish. null
Distribution
COAST REGION common, ascending from 20–5500 ft.: Clanwilliam Div.; Koude Berg, Schlechter, 8743! Tulbagh Div.; Witsen Berg, Burchell, 8689! Mitchells Pass, Schlechter, 8942! Paarl Div.; Great Britain Park, Wilms, 3444! Cape Div.; Table Mountain and other localities, Thunberg, Ecklon, 102! 275! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 6! Burchell, 554! 281! 8410! 8574! Bolus, 2116! 2963! Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland, Mund, 4! Stellenbosch, Niven, 138! Caledon Div.; Burchell, 7954! Schlechter, 5416! 7345! 10399! Zeyher, 3184β! Bolus, 5115! Swellendam Div.; peak near Swellendam, Burchell, 7385! Var. β: Bredasdorp Div.; Elim, 2500 ft., Schlechter, 7743! Caledon Div.; Baviaans Kloof, Burchell, 7767! Niven, 231! Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam, Mund, 3! Div.? Guthrie, 4575! Var. γ: Piquetberg Div.; Piquetberg Range, Schlechter, 5208!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Drège, 7692! 7693α! Zeyher, 1089! and cultivated specimens! Var. β: Thom, 611! Herb. Salisbury!
Notes
Chiefly variable in the size of its flowers, and the relative proportions of the sepals and corolla. Mr. G. F. Scott-Elliot observed that this species was abundantly visited on the hills near Cape Town by a “sugar-bird” (Nectarinia chalybea). He says, “The distance from the extremities [of the anthers] to the base of the flower is 16 lines, which is exactly the length of the beak of N. chalybea. .. .. ... The bird always seizes the branch below the flowers and exhausts one branch before going to another. It is an important article of diet to the birds, as it blooms practically all the year.” (Ann. Bot. iv. 269–270).

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