Erica inclusa H.L.Wendl. ex Benth.

Species

Angiosperms > Ericales > Ericaceae > Erica

Characteristics

6-10 in. high; branches few, slender, ascending or erect, sometimes subvirgate, puberulous; leaves 3-nate, crowded, suberect and imbricate, or spreading or squarrose, linear, blunt, glabrous, the younger minutely ciliolate, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; flowers sub-3-nate on short branchlets, by arrest of branchlets sometimes appearing axillary; pedicels puberulous, about 3 lin. long; bracts approximate, lax, ovate, membranous, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; sepals erect or subspreading, ovate, acute, keel-tipped, submembranous, about 2 1/2 lin. long; corolla at full maturity campanulate, afterwards becoming somewhat ovate, 3 1/2 lin. long, and nearly as wide when flattened; segments slightly spreading, semiorbicular, 2/5 the tube in length, the whole flower a delicate pale rose, corolla darker than the sepals; filaments 1/2-3/4 lin. long, straight and spreading at a low angle, dilated at the apex; anthers included, dorsifixed above the base, broad-linear, tapering to the subacute apex, slightly recurved, scabrous, dark-coloured, 1-1 1/2 lin. long, muticous; pore 1/3 the length of the cell; style straight, slender; stigma subsimple; ovary globose, pallid, glabrous.
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Erect, slender shrub to 1.2 m. Flowers medium, calycine, campanulate, pale pink with darker sepals.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.25
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Soil humidity 4-6
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Distribution

Erica inclusa world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:328888-1
WFO ID wfo-0000672302
COL ID 6GM3V
BDTFX ID -
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Synonyms

Ericoides inclusum Erica inclusa