Erica berzelioides Guthrie & Bolus

Species

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Characteristics

Branches stout, ascending, puberulous; leaves 3-nate, spreading, squarrose, the lower reflexed, oblong, blunt, glabrous, smooth and glossy, sulcate, the younger gland-ciliate, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, pedicels, bracts, sepals and corolla very viscid; pedicels 1 1/2-2 lin. long; bracts approximate, like the sepals but with a larger foliaceous point, 1 1/2 lin. long; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, scarious, about 2 lin. long; corolla trumpet-shaped, glabrous, viscid, red below, paler above, 1 in. long; limb erect; segments 1 lin. long, rounded; filaments slender, scarcely widened at the base; anthers subexerted, linear-oblong, rounded at the base in front, muticous, 1 1/4 lin. long; ovary glabrous.
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Erect to sprawling shrublet to 50 cm. Flowers large, tubular, pink with white mouth.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Distribution

Erica berzelioides world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:328286-1
WFO ID wfo-0000671502
COL ID 6GL8C
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Synonyms

Erica berzelioides