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Identification
Erica vestita Thunb. [family ERICACEAE ]
Related name
  • Erica vestita

Flora

Entry for ERICA vestita 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 vestita Thunb. [family ERICACEAE], Diss. Eric. 22;—Bauer, Exot. Pl. t. 26; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 626.
ERICA vestita Andr. var. incarnata [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, tt. 97, 98, 147, 198, 246, 247, and Col. Heaths, tt. 68, 69, 138, 139, 215.
ERICA vestita Andr. var. rosea [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, tt. 97, 98, 147, 198, 246, 247, and Col. Heaths, tt. 68, 69, 138, 139, 215.
ERICA vestita Andr. var. alba [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, tt. 97, 98, 147, 198, 246, 247, and Col. Heaths, tt. 68, 69, 138, 139, 215.
ERICA vestita Andr. var. purpurea [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, tt. 97, 98, 147, 198, 246, 247, and Col. Heaths, tt. 68, 69, 138, 139, 215.
ERICA vestita Andr. var. carnea [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, tt. 97, 98, 147, 198, 246, 247, and Col. Heaths, tt. 68, 69, 138, 139, 215.
ERICA vestita Andr. var. lutea [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, tt. 97, 98, 147, 198, 246, 247, and Col. Heaths, tt. 68, 69, 138, 139, 215.
ERICA vestita Wendl. var. purpurea [family ERICACEAE], Eric. Ic. fasc. 10, 7; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 217
ERICA vestita Wendl. var. alba [family ERICACEAE], l.c. fasc. 12, 3, and Lodd. l.c. t. 243
ERICA vestita Wendl. var. coccinca [family ERICACEAE], l.c. fasc. 11, 5
ERICA vestita Wendl. var. formosa [family ERICACEAE], l.c. fasc. 23, 167, t. 63
ERICA vestita Lodd. var. carnea [family ERICACEAE], l.c. tt. 1696, 1716.
ERICA vestita Lodd. var. blanda [family ERICACEAE], l.c. tt. 1696, 1716.
ERICA pinifolia Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 362.
ERICA eckloniana Tausch [family ERICACEAE], in Flora, 1839, 625.
Information
erect, virgately branched, 1–2 1/2 ft. high; leaves 6-nate, crowded, erect to spreading, tremulous, slender, linear-subtrigonous, acute, glabrous, 1/2–1 1/3 in. long, scarcely 1/4 lin. wide; petioles pallid, capillary, 1 1/2–2 lin. long, 1/12– 1/10 lin. wide; pedicels 1 1/2–4 lin. long; bracts from approximate to remote, mostly small; sepals linear from an ovate base, acuminate, foliaceous, 4–5 lin. long; corolla clavate-tubular, mouth more or less widened, straight or curved, more or less pubescent, dry, white, yellow, rosy or crimson, 2/3–1 in. long; limb erect or slightly spreading; anthers included, subexserted, or rarely exserted, dorsifixed at or shortly above the base, oblong, more or less curved, 3/4–1 lin. long, muticous or decurrent-denticulate on the filament very near the apex; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; ovary turbinate, deeply lobed, villous on the upper half, usually glabrous below. null
Distribution
COAST REGION on mountains 600–5000 ft.:- Tulbagh Div.; Witsen Berg, Burchell, 8729! Caledon Div.; Donker Hoek Mountain, Burchell, 7949! near Caledon, Mund, 7! Zoetemelks Valley, Niven, 181! and various localities, Bolus, 3192! 9226! Guthrie, 2500! 4576! Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam, Pappe! Bredasdorp Div.; Elim, 800 ft., Schlechter, 7634!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg, Masson, 122! Zeyher, 3169! Niven, 182! and cultivated specimens! Var. β: Mund & Maire, Lichtenstein (ex Klotzsch), and cultivated specimens!
Notes
A distinct and well-marked species; yet often confused with E. longifolia. From this it may be most readily distinguished by its more slender leaves, and their longer and more slender petioles; they are also tremulous in the wind, while in E. longifolia they are rigid. The two next species are closely allied by the same peculiar foliage, their sepals, anthers and ovary. But they differ by their corolla. We have specimens connecting, by subexserted anthers, var. β with the type.

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