Erica greyii Guthrie & Bolus

Species

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Characteristics

Decumbent, wide-spreading; branches chiefly from the base, rather slender, minutely pubescent, 6-12 in. long; leaves 3-nate, few and subdistant, erect-spreading, linear-subterete, acute, sulcate, distantly and obsoletely ciliate, shining, glabrous, 3-4 1/2 lin. long; heads subglobose, 5-6 lin. in diam., 6-8-flowered; pedicels 1 lin. long; bracts narrow-lanceolate, gland-hispid and ciliate with long white hairs, 1-1 1/2 lin. long; sepals like the bracts, but shortly connate at the base, about 1 lin. long; corolla urceolate, not much constricted at the throat, puberulous, 2 lin. long; segments spreading, erosulate, 1/6-1/5 the length of the tube; filaments dilated at the base and apex, narrowed in the middle, thinly pilose, about three times the length of the anther; anthers subexserted or included (but probably always exserted at maturity), oblong, incurved, obtuse at either extremity, glabrous, nearly 1/3 lin. long, denticulate-aristate; pore 3/5 the length of the cell; teeth minute on either side of the apex of the wide filament, about 1/8 the length of the cell and not reaching to its base; style exserted, straight, slender; stigma capitellate; ovary subglobose, thinly hispidulous.
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Sparse, sprawling to erect shrublet to 20 cm. Flowers small, urn-shaped, pink.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Distribution

Erica greyii world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:328812-1
WFO ID wfo-0000672194
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Synonyms

Erica greyii