Erica cryptanthera Guthrie & Bolus

Species

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Characteristics

Somewhat diffuse, drying a pale yellowish hue, 4-6 in. high; branches very slender, sparsely pubescent, the ultimate subcapillary; leaves 3-nate, spreading, shorter than the internodes, lanceolate, acute, open-backed, strongly revolute-edged, ciliate and awned at the apex, 3/4-1 1/4 lin. long; flowers axillary, solitary or binate; pedicels slender, bent, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; bracts 2, remote, basal, foliaceous, small; sepals lanceolate or oblong, acute, 1/2-3/4 lin. long; corolla broad-cyathiform, not widened at the mouth, puberulous, ochraceous yellow, about 1 1/2 lin. long; segments semiorbicular, erect, about 1/2 as long as the tube; filaments slender, equal; anthers included, oblong, dorsifixed a little above the base, under 1/3 lin. long, aristate; awns slender, upcurved, less than 1/3 the length of cell; style included; stigma subsimple upon the slightly dilated and truncate apex of the style; ovary hispidulous.
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Erect, straggling shrublet to 15 cm. Flowers small, cup-shaped, pale pink, hairy.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.1 - 0.15
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Soil humidity 4-6
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Distribution

Erica cryptanthera world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:328510-1
WFO ID wfo-0000671792
COL ID 6GKCC
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Synonyms

Erica cryptanthera