Erica densifolia Willd.

Species

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Characteristics

Erect shrub, 0.3-1.5 m high. Leaves 3-nate, 3-5 mm long, densely imbricate on short branchlets, incurved or spreading, ovate and subopen-backed to linear-lanceolate and sulcate, glabrous and shiny when mature. Flowers terminal, solitary at ends of crowded, short branchlets forming a pseudo-raceme. Calyx sepals lanceolate-oblong, acute, thick and rigid, keeled or thickened at margins and sulcate. Corolla 24-30 mm long, clavate-tubular, curved, ± pubescent, viscidulous in lower half; tube pink to red, throat and lobes greenish yellow; lobes small, continuous, obtuse. Anthers subexserted, linear-lanceolate, appendiculate; pore 1/2 length of theca; appendages ± 1/2-3/4 length of theca, slender, pendulous. Ovary 4-locular, oblong, not emarginate; style exserted, decurved at apex, slightly swollen at base; stigma simple. Flowering time Sept.-May.
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Erect shrub to 1.5 m. Flowers large, tubular, curved, pubescent, red with greenish yellow lobes.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Distribution

Erica densifolia world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:328562-1
WFO ID wfo-0000671867
COL ID 6GKCW
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Synonyms

Syringodea densifolia Erica ewerana Erica viscaria Syringodea ewerana Erica decora Erica densifolia Erica uhria Ericoides decorum Ericoides densifolium Erica secundiflora