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ERICA subdivaricata Berg. [family ERICACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 subdivaricata Berg. [family ERICACEAE], Descr. Pl. Cap. 114 ERICA persoluta Linn. [family ERICACEAE], Mant. Alt. 230; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 678. ERICA prolifera Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 376. ERICA assurgens Link [family ERICACEAE], Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 372. ERICA congesta Wendl. [family ERICACEAE], Eric. Ic. fasc. 17, 75, t. 29, not of Lodd. ERICA strigosa Wendl. [family ERICACEAE], l.c. fasc. 2, 25, not of Soland. ERICA caffra Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 7, and Col. Heaths, t. 7, not of Linn. ERICA pallidiflora Klotzsch ex Benth [family ERICACEAE], l.c. 679. ERICA exserrens Klotzsch ex Benth [family ERICACEAE], l.c. 679. ERICA regerminans Hort. ex Benth. [family ERICACEAE], l.c. ERICA paniculata Wendl. ex Steud. [family ERICACEAE], Nomencl. ed. 2, i. 577.
Information
erect, much-branched, 1–2 or even 3 ft. high; branches generally hirsute; leaves spreading or erect, linear, subobtuse, round-backed, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, about 2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate on short branches, becoming clustered; pedicels glabrous, about 1 lin. long; bracts remote, linear, ciliolate, small; sepals lanceolate, acute, foliaceous or subscarious on the margins, keeled, ciliate or naked, 1/2– 7/8 lin. long; corolla campanulate-cyathiform or subturbinate, mouth widened, sometimes only slightly so, white, more rarely rosy, 1 1/4–2 lin. long; limb spreading or erect, about 2/3 as long as the tube, the interstices between the segments acute, closed; anthers included, longitudinally semi-ovate, cuneate or oblong-cuneate, smooth, glabrous, a little over 1/4 lin. long, aristate; pore about 2/3 the length of the cell; awns curved, slightly rough on the inner edge, mostly somewhat shorter than the cell; style exserted; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous or thinly puberulous. null
Distribution
COAST REGION frequent near Cape Town, and extending eastward to Knysna Div.; ascending to 2500 ft., many collectors, Thunberg, Niven, 93! Burchell, 699! 702! 737! 766! 6542! 7048! 7581! 8376! 8588! Zeyher, 3245! Sieber, 174! Drège, 7761! Bolus, 2947! Schlechter, 2041! 7687! Guthrie, 44! 2281! Wolley Dod, 2269! Knysna Div.; Buchanan! And without locality, cultivated specimens!
Notes
Somewhat variable in habit and in the size of the flowers, and especially so as to indumentum. E. persoluta, L. var. lævis, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 679, seems to be identical with E. cyathiformis and E. persoluta, var. γ subcarnea, Benth. l.c. may be a form of E. curvirostris. The species is closely allied to E. viridi-purpurea, but is generally at once distinguishable by the acute interstices between the segments of the corolla-limb; the flowering season is also quite different.
ERICA subdivaricata Berg. [family ERICACEAE]
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