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Erica pyramidalis

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Name

Identification
Erica pyramidalis Aiton [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Erica obpyramidalis
  • Erica quinquangularis
  • Erica pyramidiformis
  • Erica imbricata
  • Erica transparens
  • Erica vernalis
  • Erica pyramidalis

Flora

Entry for ERICA pyramidalis Soland. [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 pyramidalis Soland. [family ERICACEAE], in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, iii. 491;—Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 27; Andr. Heathery, t. 142, and Col. Heaths, t. 51; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 5, 3; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 319; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 682.
ERICA transparens Thunb. [family ERICACEAE], Prodr. 71, not of Berg.
ERICA obpyramidalis Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], Prodr. 298, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 356.
ERICA campanulata F. W. Schmidt [family ERICACEAE], Neue und Selt. Pfl. 47.
Information
erect, 1–2 ft. high; branches mostly virgate; leaves 4-nate, erect, subincurved, linear-trigonous, slender, glabrous or puberulous, 2 1/2–3 1/2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, abundant, on short branchlets; pedicels 1 lin. long; bracts minute, remote; sepals linear-acuminate from an ovate scarious base, foliaceous, 1 1/4–1 1/2 lin. long; corolla campanulate-obconic, glabrous or minutely puberulous, rosy-red, 3 1/2–5 lin. long; segments ovate, slightly spreading, 1 1/2 lin. long; anthers included, dorsifixed considerably above the base, oblong, about 3/4 lin. long, muticous; ovary glabrous. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; Zwart River near Rondebosch, Masson! Niven, 100! between Wynberg and Muizenberg, Werner! (in Cape Herb.). Cape Flats, Bolus, 2953! 8019! Paarl Div.; Drakensteen Mountains, Thunberg. Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland, Thunberg.SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Sieber, 169! Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated specimens! Var. β: cultivated specimens!
Notes
There can be no question of the identity of Wendland's E. pyramidiformis, and of Loddiges' E. vernalis; Bentham held the latter as a variety of this species, and maintains the former as distinct. We have seen a specimen marked E. pyramidiformis in the Berlin Herbarium, but it has clearly nothing to do with this species, and is probably E. pusilla, Salisb.

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