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Ericinella mannii

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Identification
Ericinella mannii Hook.f. [family ERICACEAE ]
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Entry for ERICINELLA Mannii Hook. fil. [family ERICACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 482, (1877) Author: (By Prof. Oliver.)
Names
ERICINELLA Mannii Hook. fil. [family ERICACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 16. —Bot. Mag. t. 5569.
Information
A shrub of 3–12 ft. with erect fastigiate branches; extremities puberulous and with spreading short barbellate hairs. Leaves erect in whorls of 3, glabrous. Flowers small, chiefly clustered at the extremities of short lateral branchlets. Stamens 5–6; anthers somewhat cuneately narrowed at the base, unappendaged, equalling the corolla. Style shortly exserted.
Distribution
Upper Guinea Cameroons Mountains, 4–12,000 ft., Mann!Fernando Po Upper Guinea Clarence Peak, 10,000 ft., Mann!
Notes
Dr. Kirk sends from Mafia Island (about 9 miles from the mainland of Zanguebar) what is probably another species of this genus, but the flowers are not well developed. It ‘grows in masses, about 10 ft. in height.’ Rev. C. New also collected in Kilimanjaro barren specimens of an Ericaceous shrub probably referable to this genus, as also of a second, with flowers too young for satisfactory analysis, which may prove to be a Philippia .

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