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Erica tenuiflora

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Name

Identification
Erica cylindrica Thunb. [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Erica fistulaeflora Salisb. [family ERICACEAE ] Erica tenuiflora Andrews [family ERICACEAE ]
Related name
  • Erica cylindrica
  • Callista tenuiflora
  • Erica tenuiflora
  • Erica fistulaeflora

Flora

Entry for ERICA cylindrica 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 cylindrica Thunb. [family ERICACEAE], Diss. Erica, 24, not of Wendl. nor Andr.
ERICA tenuiflora Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 146, and Col. Heaths, t. 210; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1717.
ERICA tenuiflora Andr. var. alba [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 194, and Col. Heaths, t. 211.
ERICA cliffordiana Lodd. [family ERICACEAE], l.c. t. 34.
ERICA fistulæflora Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 383.
ERICA stenantha Sweet [family ERICACEAE], Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 340.
Information
erect, 1–2 ft. high, glabrous in all parts; branches subvirgate with elongating internodes; leaves erect, subacute, 2–2 1/2 lin. long; pedicels slender, over 1/2 lin. long; bracts approximate, linear, 1–1 1/2 lin. long; sepals linear-lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, scarious, ciliolate, 2 1/2 lin. long; corolla-tube cylindrical, mouth slightly contracted, glabrous, dry, yellow or white, 5–6 lin. long, about 3/4 lin. broad; segments ovate, subacute, 3/4 lin. long; anthers narrow-oblong, slightly under 1/2 lin. long, muticous; pore 3/4 the length of the cell; style included; ovary elongate, somewhat contracted at the base. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Tulbagh Div.; near Tulbagh Waterfall, 1500 ft., Niven, 82! Masson! Bolus, 5461! and in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 1306!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg in Herb. Salisbury! Also cultivated specimens!
Notes
Allied to and resembling E. pavettæflora, but quite distinct by its more equal corolla-tube, smaller limb, and different anthers. It appears to be very local. Rach, who examined Thunberg's herbarium, in Linnæa, xxvi. 777, identified this with E. tenuiflora, Andr., and the descriptions agree well.

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