Erica eriocodon Bolus

Species

Angiosperms > Ericales > Ericaceae > Erica

Characteristics

Erect, somewhat robust, about 1 ft. high; branches virgate, pubescent and also pilose with longer and sometimes glandular hairs; leaves 3-nate, spreading, crowded, linear to lanceolate, from sulcate to open-backed, pubescent and sparsely glandular-setose, ciliate, grey, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate; pedicels less than 1 lin. long; bracts subapproximate, minute; sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate, pubescent and glandular-ciliate, foliaceous, about 3/4 lin. long; corolla broad-cyathiform, mouth neither contracted nor much widened, pubescent, somewhat viscidulous, 1 lin. long and a little wider; segments broad, nearly flat, erect or at length incurved, about 1/2 as long as the tube; filaments capillary; anthers included, obovate (in front view nearly orbicular), about 1/5 lin. long, muticous; style shortly exserted; stigma capitate; ovary hirsute.
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Erect shrublet to 30 cm. Flowers small, cup-shaped, pink, hairy.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.31
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Environment

Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture 7-8
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Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

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Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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Germination treatment stratification
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Distribution

Erica eriocodon world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:328643-1
WFO ID wfo-0000671975
COL ID 6GKFP
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Erica eriocodon