Sympieza tenuifloraBenth. [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
Erica labialis
Sympieza tenuiflora
Flora
Entry for SYMPIEZA tenuiflora Benth. [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
SYMPIEZA tenuifloraBenth. [family ERICACEAE], in DC. Prodr. vii. 706
Information
much, but not densely branched; branchlets tomentose-puberulous; leaves 3-nate, imbricate or erect, 3/4–1 1/2 lin. long, linear to ovate, acute, incurved, glabrous, sometimes when young with some very minute glands on the edges; flower-heads rather copious, about 1/4 in. in diam.; calyx of the lower flowers 3/4 lin. long, 2/5– 1/2 lin. broad, coriaceous; tube cuneate-oblong, glabrous; lobes half as long as the tube, or rather more, broadly deltoid, acute, very minutely and inconspicuously ciliate; corolla about 2 1/2 lin. long, red; tube cylindric, 1/3 lin. in diam., the exserted part nearly 3 times as long as the calyx; lobes gaping, 1/2– 2/3 lin. across their tips; anthers partly exserted, 2/3 lin. long, linear; stigma simple. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Forbes! Mund!
Notes
This may be only a long-flowered form of S. capitellata, but Burchell's specimen, referred to this species by Bentham, belongs to S. articulata, and has a long-ciliate differently shaped calyx.
