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Erica pulchella

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Name

Identification
Erica pulchella Houtt. [family ERICACEAE ]
Related name
  • Erica pulchella

Flora

Entry for ERICA longifolia Ait. [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 longifolia Ait. [family ERICACEAE], in Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 4;—Donn, Hort. Cantab. ed. i. 42; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 625.
ERICA pulchella Thunb. [family ERICACEAE], Diss. Erica, 22, not of others, fide Rach.
ERICA pityophylla Spreng. [family ERICACEAE], Syst. ii. 181.
ERICA Leea Andr. ex Willd. [family ERICACEAE], Sp. Pl. ii. 400; also Heathery, t. 74 and Col. Heaths, t. 31.
ERICA leeana Ait. [family ERICACEAE], [Dryand. in] Hort. Kew,ed. 2, ii. 376; Bauer, l.c. t. 24; Benth. l.c. 625
ERICA leeana Rach var. longifolia [family ERICACEAE], in Linnæa, xxvi. 773.
ERICA vestita Drège ex Benth. [family ERICACEAE], l.c. 625.
ERICA costæflora Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 363, 364.
ERICA argutifolia Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 363, 364.
ERICA candida Bartl. [family ERICACEAE], in Linnæa, vii. 628.
ERICA glaucescens Bartl. [family ERICACEAE], l.c. 651?
ERICA piniformis Wendl. ex Klotzsch [family ERICACEAE], in Linnæa, ix. 626.
Information
erect, 1–3 ft. high; branches virgate or spreading; leaves 6-nate, mostly erect and imbricate, sometimes spreading, rarely squarrose, linear, acute, mostly glabrous, rigid, 4–10 lin. long, from 1/3 to over 1/2 lin. wide; pedicels 1–3 lin. long; bracts linear, approximate or subapproximate, from 1/2 to 3/4 the length of the sepals; sepals linear or linear-subulate, foliacepus, dry or viscid, glabrous or pubescent, 3–5 lin. long; corolla tubular or clavate-tubular, asymmetrically inflated, more rarely subequal, contracted or widened at the mouth, pubescent or villous, usually more or less viscid, variously coloured, 6–11 lin. long; anthers included, lateral, oblong, blunt, rarely semiovate and acute, muticous, 1/2–1 lin. long; ovary ovoid or turbinate, villous with long hairs, mostly glabrous towards the base. null
Distribution
COAST REGION mountain sides to 5000 ft.: Stellenbosch Div.; Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8203! 8251! Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 8! Hottentots Holland, Zeyher, 3172! Caledon Div.; common, Burchell, 7752! 7866! 8082! Zeyher, 3177! Niven, 177! 178! 180! Var. β: Div. and locality? Bolus, 6952! Guthrie, 2024! 2293! 3794! 4094! 4969! Var. γ: Caledon Div.; near Genadendal, Schlechter, 9824! Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 349! Div. and locality? Bolus, 5398! Guthrie, 4972! Var. δ: Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek Mountains, Burchell, 8039! Schlechter, 7342! locality? Guthrie, 4970! Var. ε: Div. and locality? Bolus, 6474! Schlechter, 4789! Var. ζ: Bredasdorp Div.; hills near Cape Agulhas, Schlechter, 10556!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg, Mund! Drège! and cultivated specimens! Var. γ: Niven, 40! Var. ε: Herb. Lehmann!
Notes
We have united with this E. Leea, Andr., which consists of nothing but short-leaved forms; and even most of the varieties we have tried to distinguish run into each other. The last, however, is more distinct, and might by some be held as a good species. It has the sepals of E. vestita, but not its leaves; the corolla and leaves of the present species, but broader sepals, and differs from E. onosmæflora chiefly in its somewhat differently-shaped, not inflated, and not viscid corolla. Yet it appears to be too near to all of these to make it worthy of distinction as a species.

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