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Erica venusta

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Identification
Erica venusta Salisb. [family ERICACEAE ] Erica ventricosa Thunb. [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Erica not on sheet
  • Erica ventricosa
  • Erica denticulata
  • Erica pellucida
  • Erica elongata
  • Erica venusta
  • Erica strigilifolia

Flora

Entry for ERICA strigilifolia 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 strigilifolia Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 367
ERICA elongata Lodd. [family ERICACEAE], Bot. Cab. t. 738; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 637.
ERICA venusta Klotzsch [family ERICACEAE], in Linnæa, ix. 695, not of Salisb. nor of Sinclair.
ERICA cerinthoides Berg. [family ERICACEAE], Descr. Pl. Cap. 104, not of Linn.
ERICA cerinthoides Thunb. var. γ [family ERICACEAE], Diss. Erica, 26, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 354.
ERICA strigiliflora Steud. [family ERICACEAE], Nomencl. ed. 2, i. 580.
Information
erect, 1–1 1/2 ft. high; branches slender; leaves 4-nate, erect or slightly spreading, closely imbricate, oblong or cuneate-oblong, acute, roughly hispid and pectinate-ciliate with rigid pallid hairs, thick and rigid, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, cernuous; pedicels stout, under 1 lin. long; bracts approximate, like the leaves and as long; sepals like the bracts, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, pectinate-ciliate, 2–2 1/2 lin. long; corolla tubular, slightly inflated in the middle, contracted at the throat, puberulous all over and in the upper portion also clothed with longer shaggy or barbellate hairs, white, 7–9 lin. long; limb short, somewhat spreading; anthers included, oblong, 7/8 lin. long, muticous; style included (or possibly at length exserted?); ovary obconic, villous with long silky white hairs. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Oudtshoorn Div.; Zwartberg Pass, 4200 ft., Marloth, 2406! Kolbe! Var. β: same locality, 4900 ft., Marloth, 2404!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg, Drège, 7730! 7731! Mund & Maire!
Notes
Much resembling the following species, but distinguishable by its sepals. The variety described may be connected by intermediate forms, but though we have several specimens we have seen none.

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