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Erica arborea L. [family ERICACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2006) Author: HENK BEENTJE
Names
Erica arborea L. [family ERICACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 353 (1753); Oliv., F.T.A. 3: 483 (1877); P.O.A. C: 302 (1895); Z.A.E.: 509 (1914); T.T.C.L.: 192 (1949); I. Hansen in E.J. 75: 37– 43 (1950); Pic. Serm. & Heiniger in Webbia 9: 12– 28 (1953); A.V.P.: 140 (1957); F.P.U.: 116 (1962); Webb & Rix in Fl. Europ. 3: 7 (1972); Hamilton, Uganda For. Trees: 80 (1981); K.T.S.L.: 444 (1994); U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 170 (1994); Hedberg & Hedberg in Fl. Eth. 4, 1: 46, fig. 133.1 (2003). Type: Hb. Burser. XXV: 24 UPS (Jarvis & McClintock in Taxon 38: 507-514, 1990)
Erica acrophya Fres. [family ERICACEAE], Flora 21: 604 (1838). Type: Ethiopia, Rueppell s.n. (FR, holo.)
Erica arborea Spirlet subsp. parviflora [family ERICACEAE], in Bull. Seances Acad. Roy. Outre-Mer new ser. 3: 1130 (1957). Type: Congo-Kinshasa, Nyiragongo, Marlier s.n. (BR, holo.), syn. nov.
Information
Shrub or tree 0.3– 7.5 m high, trunk diameter to at least 5 cm; much-branched, with ascending branches, the branches red-brown; stems pubescent with short smooth hairs and longer dendritic hairs to 1 mm. Leaves in whorls of 3– 4, appressedor ascending, needle-like, 2– 6.5 mm long, 0.5– 1 mm wide, margins minutely denticulate, glabrous; petiole 0.4– 0.7 mm long, glabrous. Flowers clustered towards the end of short lateral branches, where their density may give impression of continuous flowers along branches; pedicels 1.5– 4 mm long, glabrous or rarely with a few hairs, with bract and 2 ciliolate bracteoles to 1.3 mm long below the middle. Calyx 4-merous, 1.1– 1.9 mm long, the lobes ovate, 0.6– 1.2 mm long, ciliolate (sometimes with dendritic hairs) to glabrous, saccate at base. Corolla white or pink, campanulate, pendulous, 1.5– 4 mm long, widest at the mouth or almost so; stamens 8, included in corolla, anthers bifid and dehiscing by an oblique pore, with two small dorsal/basal appendages; disc present; ovary glabrous, style 0.5– 2 mm long, stigma capitate, 0.2– 0.5 mm in diameter. Fruit a glabrous capsule. Fig. 3.
Range
DISTR. U 1– 3; K 1– 6; T 2, 3 Chad (Tibesti), Congo-Kinshasa, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia; North Africa and Europe from the Canary Is. and N Spain to the Black Sea region and Saudi Arabia and Yemen
Altitude range
(1600– )2000– 3900(– 4500) m
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier District Mt Nyiro, W side, July 1960, Kerfoot 2018!KENYA Naivasha District Kipipiri link road, Jan. 1961, Lind 2935!KENYA Mt Kenya, NW slopes, Mar. 1968, Mwangangi & Fosberg 568!TANZANIA Mbulu/Masai District Mt Oldeani, Oct. 1988, Chuwa 2669!TANZANIA Mt Meru, Oct. 1948, Hedberg 2373!TANZANIA Kilimanjaro, Shira Plateau near Simba Cave, Sep. 1993, Grimshaw 93/602!UGANDA Karamoja District Debasien summit, May 1939, A.S. Thomas 2916!UGANDA Kigezi District Muhavura– Mgahuza saddle, Sep. 1946, Purseglove 2137! Elgon, Bulambuli, Nov. 1933, Tothill 2293!UGANDA Elgon, Bulambuli, Nov. 1933, Tothill 2293!
Notes
USES. None recorded; attractive to beesCONSERVATION Least concern (LC) Grimshaw 93/602 that some specimens are occasionally stoloniferous.The subspecies described by Spirlet was distinguished by characters that fall within the normal variation of this species, and therefore I have made it into a synonym.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2006) Author: HENK BEENTJE
Names
Erica arborea L. [family ERICACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 353 (1753); Oliv., F.T.A. 3: 483 (1877); P.O.A. C: 302 (1895); Z.A.E.: 509 (1914); T.T.C.L.: 192 (1949); I. Hansen in E.J. 75: 37– 43 (1950); Pic. Serm. & Heiniger in Webbia 9: 12– 28 (1953); A.V.P.: 140 (1957); F.P.U.: 116 (1962); Webb & Rix in Fl. Europ. 3: 7 (1972); Hamilton, Uganda For. Trees: 80 (1981); K.T.S.L.: 444 (1994); U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 170 (1994); Hedberg & Hedberg in Fl. Eth. 4, 1: 46, fig. 133.1 (2003). Type: Hb. Burser. XXV: 24 UPS (Jarvis & McClintock in Taxon 38: 507-514, 1990)
Erica acrophya Fres. [family ERICACEAE], Flora 21: 604 (1838). Type: Ethiopia, Rueppell s.n. (FR, holo.)
Erica arborea Spirlet subsp. parviflora [family ERICACEAE], in Bull. Seances Acad. Roy. Outre-Mer new ser. 3: 1130 (1957). Type: Congo-Kinshasa, Nyiragongo, Marlier s.n. (BR, holo.), syn. nov.
Information
Shrub or tree 0.3– 7.5 m high, trunk diameter to at least 5 cm; much-branched, with ascending branches, the branches red-brown; stems pubescent with short smooth hairs and longer dendritic hairs to 1 mm. Leaves in whorls of 3– 4, appressedor ascending, needle-like, 2– 6.5 mm long, 0.5– 1 mm wide, margins minutely denticulate, glabrous; petiole 0.4– 0.7 mm long, glabrous. Flowers clustered towards the end of short lateral branches, where their density may give impression of continuous flowers along branches; pedicels 1.5– 4 mm long, glabrous or rarely with a few hairs, with bract and 2 ciliolate bracteoles to 1.3 mm long below the middle. Calyx 4-merous, 1.1– 1.9 mm long, the lobes ovate, 0.6– 1.2 mm long, ciliolate (sometimes with dendritic hairs) to glabrous, saccate at base. Corolla white or pink, campanulate, pendulous, 1.5– 4 mm long, widest at the mouth or almost so; stamens 8, included in corolla, anthers bifid and dehiscing by an oblique pore, with two small dorsal/basal appendages; disc present; ovary glabrous, style 0.5– 2 mm long, stigma capitate, 0.2– 0.5 mm in diameter. Fruit a glabrous capsule. Fig. 3.
Range
DISTR. U 1– 3; K 1– 6; T 2, 3 Chad (Tibesti), Congo-Kinshasa, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia; North Africa and Europe from the Canary Is. and N Spain to the Black Sea region and Saudi Arabia and Yemen
Altitude range
(1600– )2000– 3900(– 4500) m
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier District Mt Nyiro, W side, July 1960, Kerfoot 2018!KENYA Naivasha District Kipipiri link road, Jan. 1961, Lind 2935!KENYA Mt Kenya, NW slopes, Mar. 1968, Mwangangi & Fosberg 568!TANZANIA Mbulu/Masai District Mt Oldeani, Oct. 1988, Chuwa 2669!TANZANIA Mt Meru, Oct. 1948, Hedberg 2373!TANZANIA Kilimanjaro, Shira Plateau near Simba Cave, Sep. 1993, Grimshaw 93/602!UGANDA Karamoja District Debasien summit, May 1939, A.S. Thomas 2916!UGANDA Kigezi District Muhavura– Mgahuza saddle, Sep. 1946, Purseglove 2137! Elgon, Bulambuli, Nov. 1933, Tothill 2293!UGANDA Elgon, Bulambuli, Nov. 1933, Tothill 2293!
Notes
USES. None recorded; attractive to beesCONSERVATION Least concern (LC) Grimshaw 93/602 that some specimens are occasionally stoloniferous.The subspecies described by Spirlet was distinguished by characters that fall within the normal variation of this species, and therefore I have made it into a synonym.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2006) Author: HENK BEENTJE
Names
Erica arborea L. [family ERICACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 353 (1753); Oliv., F.T.A. 3: 483 (1877); P.O.A. C: 302 (1895); Z.A.E.: 509 (1914); T.T.C.L.: 192 (1949); I. Hansen in E.J. 75: 37– 43 (1950); Pic. Serm. & Heiniger in Webbia 9: 12– 28 (1953); A.V.P.: 140 (1957); F.P.U.: 116 (1962); Webb & Rix in Fl. Europ. 3: 7 (1972); Hamilton, Uganda For. Trees: 80 (1981); K.T.S.L.: 444 (1994); U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 170 (1994); Hedberg & Hedberg in Fl. Eth. 4, 1: 46, fig. 133.1 (2003). Type: Hb. Burser. XXV: 24 UPS (Jarvis & McClintock in Taxon 38: 507-514, 1990)
Erica acrophya Fres. [family ERICACEAE], Flora 21: 604 (1838). Type: Ethiopia, Rueppell s.n. (FR, holo.)
Erica arborea Spirlet subsp. parviflora [family ERICACEAE], in Bull. Seances Acad. Roy. Outre-Mer new ser. 3: 1130 (1957). Type: Congo-Kinshasa, Nyiragongo, Marlier s.n. (BR, holo.), syn. nov.
Information
Shrub or tree 0.3– 7.5 m high, trunk diameter to at least 5 cm; much-branched, with ascending branches, the branches red-brown; stems pubescent with short smooth hairs and longer dendritic hairs to 1 mm. Leaves in whorls of 3– 4, appressedor ascending, needle-like, 2– 6.5 mm long, 0.5– 1 mm wide, margins minutely denticulate, glabrous; petiole 0.4– 0.7 mm long, glabrous. Flowers clustered towards the end of short lateral branches, where their density may give impression of continuous flowers along branches; pedicels 1.5– 4 mm long, glabrous or rarely with a few hairs, with bract and 2 ciliolate bracteoles to 1.3 mm long below the middle. Calyx 4-merous, 1.1– 1.9 mm long, the lobes ovate, 0.6– 1.2 mm long, ciliolate (sometimes with dendritic hairs) to glabrous, saccate at base. Corolla white or pink, campanulate, pendulous, 1.5– 4 mm long, widest at the mouth or almost so; stamens 8, included in corolla, anthers bifid and dehiscing by an oblique pore, with two small dorsal/basal appendages; disc present; ovary glabrous, style 0.5– 2 mm long, stigma capitate, 0.2– 0.5 mm in diameter. Fruit a glabrous capsule. Fig. 3.
Range
DISTR. U 1– 3; K 1– 6; T 2, 3 Chad (Tibesti), Congo-Kinshasa, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia; North Africa and Europe from the Canary Is. and N Spain to the Black Sea region and Saudi Arabia and Yemen
Altitude range
(1600– )2000– 3900(– 4500) m
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier District Mt Nyiro, W side, July 1960, Kerfoot 2018!KENYA Naivasha District Kipipiri link road, Jan. 1961, Lind 2935!KENYA Mt Kenya, NW slopes, Mar. 1968, Mwangangi & Fosberg 568!TANZANIA Mbulu/Masai District Mt Oldeani, Oct. 1988, Chuwa 2669!TANZANIA Mt Meru, Oct. 1948, Hedberg 2373!TANZANIA Kilimanjaro, Shira Plateau near Simba Cave, Sep. 1993, Grimshaw 93/602!UGANDA Karamoja District Debasien summit, May 1939, A.S. Thomas 2916!UGANDA Kigezi District Muhavura– Mgahuza saddle, Sep. 1946, Purseglove 2137! Elgon, Bulambuli, Nov. 1933, Tothill 2293!UGANDA Elgon, Bulambuli, Nov. 1933, Tothill 2293!
Notes
USES. None recorded; attractive to beesCONSERVATION Least concern (LC) Grimshaw 93/602 that some specimens are occasionally stoloniferous.The subspecies described by Spirlet was distinguished by characters that fall within the normal variation of this species, and therefore I have made it into a synonym.
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