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Erica fascicularis L.F.

Species

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Characteristics

Erect shrub up to 1.8 m (6 ft) or so. Branches few, long, virgate, glabrous, terminating in a conspicuous rosette of large, pinkish, green-tipped flowers, Leaves 6-nate or scattered, erect-spreading, linear, subterete, blunt, glabrous, on 3 mm long capillary petioles, the whole 1.2-1.7 cm long. Flowers in 10-to 25-flowered umbels; peduncles 6-8 mm long, glabrous; bracts median, foliaccous. Sepals about 6 mm long, narrow-lanceolate, acute, foliaceous, glabrous, viscid. Corolla 2.5-3.3 cm long, tubular, viscid, glossy, glabrous, rosy below, paler above; lobes short, subdeltoid, incurved, greenish. Anthers included, 34 mm long, lateral, oblong, appendiculate; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; awns straight, shorter than the cells. Ovary narrow-oblong, long-stipitate, glabrous; style exserted; stigma simple.
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2-6 ft. high; branches long, virgate, slender, terminating in a conspicuous rosette of large pinkish green-tipped flowers; leaves 6-nate or scattered, erect-spreading; petioles capillary, 1 1/2 lin. long; blade linear, sub-terete, blunt, glabrous, the whole 1/2-2/3 in. long; flowers 10-25 in the umbel, sometimes pseudo-lateral owing to new growth; pedicels 3-4 lin. long; bracts foliaceous, linear, remote or subremote; sepals narrow-lanceolate, acute, foliaceous, glabrous, rather viscid, about 3 lin. long; corolla tubular, equal, viscid, glossy, 1-1 1/3 in. long, rosy below, paler upwards; segments subdeltoid, incurved, greenish; anthers oblong; awns straight, shorter than the cells.
Erect, sparsely branched shrub to 1.8 m. Flowers large, tubular or tubular inflated, pink with green lobes, sticky.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.83
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Soil texture 5-8
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Images

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Distribution

Erica fascicularis world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:328675-1
WFO ID wfo-0000672015
COL ID 6GK7S
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Synonyms

Erica imperialis Erica coronata Erica fascicularis Syringodea coronata Syringodea fascicularis Erica radiiflora Ericoides fasciculare Euryloma imperialis Erica octophylla Erica fascicularis var. fascicularis
WorldFloraDB 2024