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Erica virescens

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Name

Identification
Erica virescens Link [family ERICACEAE ] Erica discolor Andrews [family ERICACEAE ] Verified by Blake, E.A., Erica unicolor J.C.Wendl. [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Erica unrecorded unrecorded [family ERICACEAE ]
Related name
  • Erica unicolor
  • Erica unrecorded
  • Erica discolor
  • Erica virescens

Flora

Entry for ERICA unicolor Wendl. [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 unicolor Wendl. [family ERICACEAE], Eric. Ic. fasc. 25, 7, t. 3
ERICA virescens Link [family ERICACEAE], Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 359, not of Thunb.
ERICA viridescens Lodd. [family ERICACEAE], Bot. Cab. t. 233.
ERICA hirta Andr. var. viridiflora [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 166, and Col. Heaths, t. 173.
Information
erect, 3–4 ft. high, with ascending branches; leaves 4-nate (“3–4-nate,” Bentham), laxly spreading, linear, hispid with long hairs, 3–4 lin. long; flowers 4-nate (or “sub-3-nate,” Bentham), sessile or pedicels very short; bracts approximate, linear, foliaceous, hispid, 2 1/2 lin. long; sepals like the bracts, 2 1/2–3 lin. long (or in Andrews' fig. 5 lin. long); corolla tubular, straight, glabrous, viscid, green, 8–11 lin. long; anthers narrow-oblong, 1 lin. long, included, aristate; awns capillary, 1/6– 2/3 the length of the cell; ovary glabrous. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Mossel Bay Div.; Attaquas Kloof, Masson, 104!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Mund & Maire! Also cultivated specimens!
Notes
We retain this species, which seems too closely allied to E. dichrus, with much doubt. Excepting in its more spreading, more hairy leaves, and straighter green corolla, there is little difference, and both come from the same locality. The material, however, at disposal, is very poor.

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