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Erica tomentosa

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Erica nivalis Andrews [family ERICACEAE]
Filed as Erica tomentosa Salisb. [family ERICACEAE]
Holotype of Erica passerinae Montin [family ERICACEAE]
Filed as Erica tomentosa Salisb. [family ERICACEAE]
Erica tomentosa Salisb. [family ERICACEAE]
Erica tomentosa Salisb. [family ERICACEAE]
Lectotype of Erica tomentosa Salisb. [family ERICACEAE]
Type of Erica velutina Bartl. [family ERICACEAE]
Erica tomentosa Salisb. [family ERICACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Erica tomentosa Salisb. [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Erica velutina Bartl. [family ERICACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Erica velutina
  • Erica amphoraeformis
  • Erica passerinae
  • Erica unrecorded
  • Erica tomentosa
  • Erica nivalis

Flora

Entry for ERICA tomentosa Salisb. [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 tomentosa Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 327;—Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 673.
ERICA velutina Bartl. [family ERICACEAE], in Linnæa, vii. 645.
Information
erect, about 1 ft. high; branches numerous, paniculate, tomentose-pubescent, densely many-flowered; leaves 3-nate, suberect, linear, obtuse, sulcate, puberulous, glabrescent, 1–1 1/2 lin. long; flowers sub-3-nate; pedicels pubescent, 1–1 1/2 lin. long; bracts small, remote; sepals narrow-lanceolate to ovate, pubescent, coloured, about 1/2 lin. long; corolla urceolate or narrow-urceolate, mouth slightly contracted, densely and shortly pubescent, almost velvety, dull red to lilac, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; limb very short; segments spreading; filaments capillary, bent at the apex; anthers included, dorsifixed near the base, broad oblong, very obtuse, about 1/3 lin. long, aristate; awns short, subulate, sometimes recurved upwards, the apices touching the back of the anther; style subexserted, stigma capitate; ovary from pubescent to subglabrous. null
Distribution
COAST REGION between 1000–2000 ft.: Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland, Mulder, ex Salisbury! Caledon Div.; mountains of Baviaans Kloof and near Genadendal, Burchell, 7611! Drège, 7770a! Galpin, 3659! mountains near Zoetmelks Vlei, Grisbrook in Herb. Guthrie, 3295! at the foot of Babylons Tower, Ecklon (ex Bartling). Also cultivated specimens, Herb. Salisbury!

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