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Erica tubiflora

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Identification
Erica curviflora L. [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by HBG-formal name change, 2010 Erica tubiflora L. [family ERICACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Erica tubiflora
  • Erica stagnalis
  • Erica curviflora
  • Erica coccinea
  • Erica sulfurea

Flora

Entry for ERICA curviflora Linn. [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 curviflora Linn. [family ERICACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 354;—Thunb. Diss. Erica, 24; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 3, 7; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 633; Andr. Heathery, it. 16, 211 (var. rubra), and Col. Heaths, tt. 19, 161; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1663.
ERICA tubiflora Linn. [family ERICACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 505; Thunb. Diss. Erica, 25.
ERICA cuspidigera Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 358.
ERICA procera Wendl. [family ERICACEAE], Eric. Ic. fasc. 17, 71, t. 27.
ERICA simpliciflora Willd. [family ERICACEAE], Sp. Pl. ii. 402, and Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 17, 69, t. 26.
ERICA simplicifolia Steud. [family ERICACEAE], Nomencl. ed. i. 309.
ERICA fastuosa Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 359.
ERICA buccinæformis Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], Prodr. 294, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 359; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 633.
ERICA ignescens Wendl. [family ERICACEAE], Eric. Ic. fasc. 8, 3, and var. atropurpurea, fasc. 20, 117, t. 44; Andr. Heathery, t. 27, and Col. Heaths, t. 103.
ERICA laniflora F. W. Schmidt [family ERICACEAE], Neue und selt. Pfl. 44, not of Wendl.
ERICA tubulosa Sm. ex Steud. [family ERICACEAE], Nomencl. ed. 1, 310.—Erica, Seb. Mus. 2, t. 19, fig. 5, and 1, t. 20, fig. 4.
Information
1 1/2–5 ft. high; branches virgate, stout, more rarely spreading or slender; leaves 4-nate, erect, incurved or spreading, imbricate, linear or lanceolate-linear, acute, subtrigonous, keeled, or somewhat open-backed, ciliate or glabrous or pubescent, 1 1/2–3 1/2 lin. long; flowers solitary, usually subsessile and ascending, sometimes at length decurved; bracts small, approximate, or subremote; sepals variable, linear and foliaceous from a broad scarious base, or lanceolate or ovate, scarious with a broad foliaceous keel, or entirely scarious and coloured, glabrous or pubescent, 1 1/2–4 1/2 lin. long; corolla clavate-tubular or trumpet-shaped, curved or more rarely straight, mostly pubescent, or villous, more rarely glabrous, dry, red, orange or yellow, 10–19 (commonly 11–13) lin. long; limb 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long; filaments slender, glabrous or pilose; anthers included or subexserted, oblong, straight or slightly curved forwards at the base, inserted on the filament above their base, about 3/4 to a little over 1 lin. long, muticous or minutely decurrent-denticulate along the filament; ovary glabrous, sessile or substipitate, sometimes excavate at the apex, with callous bosses rising above the base of the style. null
Range
A very variable species of wide distribution.
Distribution
COAST REGION in Clanwilliam, Tulbagh and Piquetberg Div., and in all the coast Divisions from Cape to Albany Div., at from 300–2500 ft., Thunberg, Burchell, 546! 3719! 5747! 7046! 7777! Niven, 193! 194! 229! Zeyher, 3160! Drège, 7700! 7701! 7702! 7710! Galpin, 3585! MacOwan, 81! and in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 751! Bolus, 1577! 3993! 4168! 5851! 8668! Mulder! Schlechter, 1918! 2417! 10379! Var. β: Cape Div.; near Cape Town, Niven, 191! Mund, 11! Bolus, 3716! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 13! George Div.; Cradock Berg, Burchell, 6023! near Touw River, Burchell, 5738! Var. γ: Worcester Div.; Goudini, Schlechter, 9948! Caledon Div.; mountains near the Zondereiude River, 4500 ft., Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 4595! Var. δ: Paarl Div.; mountains around French Hoek, MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 957! Schlechter, 9264! Caledon Div.; Klein Houw Hoek, Niven, 10! Var. ε: Caledon Div.; near Genadendal, 3000 ft., Galpin, 3573! mountains near Grey-town, Herb. Bolus, 6750!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Herb. Salisbury! Var. β, Sieber, 76! Var. δ, Mund, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated specimens of the type and vars. β and δ!
Notes
Earlier authors described and figured the forms as they successively appeared, as so many distinct species. With a very large amount of material before us we have with difficulty distinguished 3 or 4 varieties, and even some of these run into each other.

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