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Erica plukenetii

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Identification
Erica plukenetii L. [family ERICACEAE ]
Related name
  • Erica plukenetii

Flora

Entry for ERICA scariosa 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 scariosa Thunb. [family ERICACEAE], Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 350
ERICA Plukenetii Thunb. var. β [family ERICACEAE], Diss. Erica, t. 2.
ERICA Plukenetii Wendl. var. inflata [family ERICACEAE], Eric. Ic. fasc. 22, 147, t. 55?
ERICA Plukenetii Wendl. var. conferta [family ERICACEAE], l.c. fasc. 24, 183, t. 69?.
ERICA fusiformis Salisb. var. γ [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 347.
ERICA fusiformis Salisb. var. δ [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 347.
ERICA Plukenetii Klotzsch var. eckloniana [family ERICACEAE], in Linnæa, xxvi. 772.
ERICA Plukenetii Klotzsch ex Rach var. dregeana [family ERICACEAE], in Linnæa, xxvi. 772.
ERICA Petiverii Salisb. var. β [family ERICACEAE], in Thunb. Diss. Erica, ed. altera, 20, fig. 5, not of Thunb.
ERICA penicillata Benth. [family ERICACEAE], in DC. Prodr. vii. 622, not of Andr.
Information
erect, glabrous, 1–1 1/2 ft. high; leaves erect-spreading, crowded, mostly on very short branchlets; inflorescence strictly terminal, flowers solitary, sometimes by the suppression of the branchlets pseudo-lateral; pedicels 3–4 lin. long; bracts remote, minute; sepals ovate to ovate-anceolate, acute or acuminate, strongly keeled, scarious, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; corolla ovoid to tubular-inflated, white or rosy, 3 1/4–4 1/2 lin. long, 2–2 1/2 lin. wide. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Ceres Div.; near the Wagenbooms River, 5500 ft., Schlechter, 10151!COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; Cederberg Range, Leipoldt, 357! and without precise locality, Zeyher! Mader! Piquetberg Div.; near Twenty-four Rivers, Zeyher, 1090! Tulbagh Div.; Ceres Road, Schlechter, 9084! Worcester Div.; Breede River Valley, Bolus, 5114! Paarl Div.; French Hoek Mountains, 1000 ft., MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust-Afr., 937! Cape Div.; Muizen Berg, Harvey!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg! Niven! Zeyher, 1090! Drège, 7694! Bolus, 2964!
Notes
We admit this species with doubt. Its principal distinction from E. Plukeneti lies in the shorter and proportionately broader corolla, and there does appear to be a break between the shortest-flowered forms of E. Plukeneti, and the longest-flowered of this. It is curious, however, that Andrews' Heathery, t. 135, which Bentham cites, is clearly E. Plukeneti, with corollas of 6 1/2–7 1/2 lin. long. The specimens Bentham had in describing were those collected by Drège, Niven, and Zeyher (1098), which show corollas shorter than any others, viz. 3–5 lin. long, and sometimes somewhat globose, nearly 3 lin. in diameter. These are shorter and broader than any others we have seen. We are obliged to cite Wendland's figures with doubt: they are from cultivated specimens, and probably more luxuriant than any wild ones; in fact, we have not seen any figure fairly representing the wild plant, which has a distinct facies, but little like that of E. Plukeneti, and on this account we allow it, with some reluctance, to stand. [This is the plant figured by Salisbury as “ E. Petiverii, var. β,” and the type specimen so named from his herbarium, now at Kew, is a branchlet broken from (as is evidenced by the ends fitting together) the type specimen of E. scariosa in Thunberg's herbarium, on the sheet of which Thunberg has written “ E. Plukenetii β,” and has figured the plant under that name. Salisbury evidently made a mistake in copying and publishing the name as “ E. Petiverii, var. β,” since the plant so named in Thunberg's herbarium is E. Petiveri, var. Willdenovii, Bolus.— N. E. Brown .]

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