Erica harveyana Guthrie & Bolus

Species

Angiosperms > Ericales > Ericaceae > Erica

Characteristics

Apparently a small shrub; branches slender, densely covered with rather long, straight, squarrose simple hairs; leaves 3-nate, very crowded, suberect, imbricate, slender, linear, subobtuse, flat above, convex and sulcate below, glabrous, ciliate, shortly aristate-apiculate, 1 lin. long; flowers 3-nate; pedicels about 1/2 lin. long; bracts approximate, foliaceous, minute; sepals foliaceous, lanceolate, united a little above the base, glabrous, about 1/2 lin. long; corolla broadish cyathiform when young, mouth neither widened nor contracted, when older becoming somewhat broadly-ovoid with the mouth slightly contracted, glabrous, about 3/4 lin. long; segments broadly deltoid, slightly spreading, 1/3-1/2 the length of the tube; anthers exserted, lateral, longitudinally semilanceolate, subacute, slightly curved at the back, straightish in front, glabrous, smooth, 2/5 lin. long, aristate; pore about 1/3 as long as the cell; awns less than 1/3 as long as the cell, incurved (? always); style exserted, slender, decurved; stigma capitate, lobed or punctate above, somewhat large; ovary white-pubescent, 4-celled, cells several-ovuled.
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Dwarf shrub, up to 0.5 m high. Leaves 3-nate, crowded, suberect, imbricate, 2.1 mm long, linear, subobtuse, flat above, convex and sulcate below, glabrous, ciliate, shortly aristate-apiculate. Flowers 3-nate. Calyx sepals foliaceous, lanceolate, united a little above base, glabrous, ± 1 mm long. Corolla globose to cyathiform when young, becoming broadly ovoid with mouth slightly contracted, glabrous, sometimes viscid, ± 1.5 mm long; lobes broadly deltoid, slightly spreading 1/3-1/2 length of tube, white. Anthers exserted, semi-lanceolate, subacute, glabrous, smooth, ± 0.8 mm long, aristate; pore ± 1/3 as long as theca; appendages < 1/3 as long as theca, sometimes incurved. Style exserted, slender, decurved; stigma capitate, lobed or punctate above, somewhat large. Ovary white-pubescent, 4-loculed, several ovules per locule. Flowering time Sept.-Nov.
Like E. granulosa , erect shrublet to 50 cm. Flowers small, ovoid-cup-shaped, slightly sticky, white, with exserted anthers.
Life form perennial
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Distribution

Erica harveyana world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:328829-1
WFO ID wfo-0000672218
COL ID 6GJYY
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Synonyms

Erica harveyana