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Erica vestiflua

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Name

Identification
Erica vestiflua unrecorded [family ERICACEAE ] Erica hirsuta unrecorded [family ERICACEAE ] Erica vestiflua Salisb. [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Erica petiveriana
  • Erica vestiflua
  • Erica hirsuta
  • Erica crinifolia

Flora

Entry for ERICA vestiflua 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 vestiflua Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 346;—Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 622.
ERICA Petiveri Andr. var. hirsuta [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 80, and Col. Heaths, t. 118.
ERICA picta Sinclair [family ERICACEAE], Hort. Eric. Wob. 19.
Information
erect, 1 1/2 ft. high; branches ascending, pubescent, covered with shorter branchlets and leaf-tufts; leaves 3-nate, spreading-incurved, linear, slender, margins inflexed, pilose, 4–5 lin. long; petiole longish, pallid, flat, flowers solitary (or 3-nate ex Andrews), cernuous; pedicels about 1 lin.; bracts approximate, broad ovate, rigid, paleaceous, glabrous, 2 lin. long; sepals like the bracts, subobtuse, apiculate or minutely keel-tipped, 4 lin. long; corolla tubular, curved, about 8 lin. long, null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality; growing on the mountains, Niven, 6! Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated specimens! All in Herb. Kew.
Notes
In floral structure this much resembles E. Petiveri, var. Willdenovii, but the flowers are usually smaller and the habit and leaves quite different.

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