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Erica procumbens

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Filed as Erica peziza Lodd. [family ERICACEAE]
Filed as Erica perlata Sinclair [family ERICACEAE]
Filed as Erica peziza Lodd. [family ERICACEAE]
Filed as Erica perlata Sinclair [family ERICACEAE]
Type of Erica procumbens Lodd. [family ERICACEAE]
Filed as Erica perlata Sinclair [family ERICACEAE]
Filed as Erica peziza Lodd. [family ERICACEAE]
Filed as Erica procumbens Lodd. [family ERICACEAE]
Erica procumbens Lodd. [family ERICACEAE]
Type of Erica tenella Andrews var. gracilior Bolus [family ERICACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Erica perlata Sinclair [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by HBG-formal name change, 2010 Erica procumbens Lodd. [family ERICACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Erica perlata
  • Erica procumbens
  • Erica tenella

Flora

Entry for ERICA perlata Sinclair [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 perlata Sinclair [family ERICACEAE], Hort. Eric. Wob. 18;—Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 670.
ERICA barbata Andr. var. minor [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 5, and Col. Heaths, t. 78.
ERICA barbata Drège [family ERICACEAE], in Linnæa, xx. 187.
ERICA pura Lodd. [family ERICACEAE], Bot. Cab. t. 72?
ERICA procumbens Lodd. [family ERICACEAE], l.c. t. 1993?
ERICA ephemera Tausch [family ERICACEAE], in Flora, 1839, 635.
Information
erect, 1–2 ft. high; branches ascending, often straggling, tomentose and glandular-pilose; leaves 4-nate, squarrose, narrow-oblong, or the shorter subovate, open-backed, obtuse, gland-pilose, 2–3 lin. long; flowers umbellate; umbels 4–10-flowered, often clustered; pedicels 2–3 lin. long; bracts remote; sepals lanceolate-oblong, pubescent and gland-ciliate with long hairs, about 1 lin. long, pedicels, bracts and sepals all glandular-pilose; corolla oblong or cyathiform-campanulate, mouth not contracted, pubescent, yellowish, about 1 1/2 lin. long; segments spreading, more than 1/2 as long as the tube; anthers subexserted, oblong, narrowed to the base, minutely aristulate or sometimes muticous (?); awns not reaching beyond the base of the cell, or sometimes with a minute tooth on either side of the filament near its apex; style exserted; stigma clavate-capitate; ovary lanate. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Caledon Div.; near the Zondereinde River, Zeyher, 3243! Schlechter, 5642! mountains near Genadendal, 1500 ft., Drège, Galpin, 3663!
Notes
E.pura,Lodd., and E. procumbens, Lodd., were described and figured from garden specimens, and may have been hybrids. No wild specimens have been seen. They are clearly closely related here; and the garden specimens preserved show this even more fully than the plates.

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