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Erica walkeria

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Identification
Erica walkeria Andrews [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by HBG-formal name change, 2010 Erica juliana Lodd. [family ERICACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Erica walkeri
  • Erica andreviana
  • Erica pulchella
  • Erica hyacinthoides
  • Erica fastigiata
  • Erica juliana
  • Erica walkerii
  • Erica pulchra
  • Erica unrecorded
  • Callista unrecorded
  • Erica walkeria
  • Erica bartlingiana
  • Erica walkeriana

Flora

Entry for ERICA Walkeria Andr. [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 Walkeria Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 50;—Andr. Col. Heaths, t. 72.
ERICA walkeriana Benth. [family ERICACEAE], in DC. Prodr. vii. 647.
ERICA Walkeria Andr. var. rubra [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 100, and Col. Heaths, t. 144.
ERICA fastigiata Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Heatheryt. 62, and Col. Heaths, t. 90; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 207, not of Linn.
ERICA Walkeri Lodd. [family ERICACEAE], l.c. t. 256.
ERICA juliana Lodd. [family ERICACEAE], l.c. t. 799.
ERICA pulchra Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 384.
Information
erect, 1–1 1/2 ft. high; branches mostly slender, densely leafy and flowered; leaves usually spreading and incurved, linear, subacute, keeled, about 2 lin. long; flowers subsessile; bracts approximate, subequal, lanceolate, scarious; sepals oblong, lanceolate, or sometimes suboblanceolate, acute, scarious, minutely ciliate-lacerate, thickly keeled at the apex, 2–3 lin. long, bracts and sepals often uncinately-incurved; corolla-tube urceolate, rosy or red, 3–4 lin. long; segments ovate or suborbicular, rarely mealy above, about 1 lin. long; anthers oblong, about 2/5 lin. long, muticous; pore 1/2 the length of the cell. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Ceres Div.; near Ceres, Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 2366! Paarl Div.; on the Drakensteen Mountains near Wellington, 1000 ft., MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 18! Swellendam Div.; without precise locality, Herb. Huguenot Seminary, 84! Var. β: Tulbagh Div.; mountains near Tulbagh, Ecklon & Zeyher and Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, Drège (ex Bentham).SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Drège! Herb. Salisbury! Also cultivated specimens!
Notes
We have not seen specimens of var. β.

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