Erica leucopelta Tausch

Species

Angiosperms > Ericales > Ericaceae > Erica

Characteristics

Erect; branches and leaves pubescent, or also hispid with scanty or dense, coarse, stiff, white, sometimes gland-tipped hairs; leaves erect, or spreading, oblong-lanceolate or linear, sulcate or very rarely subopen-backed, 1-2 1/2 lin. long; flowers mostly scanty, or at least not in dense masses; pedicels 1/2-3/4 lin. long; bracts remote, mostly 3, one rather large and foliaceous, and two usually small or very minute, or perhaps sometimes wanting; sepals linear or oblong, foliaceous, pubescent, hispid-ciliate or naked, about 1/3 lin. long; corolla broad-cyathiform or hemispherical, widened to the mouth, glabrous, smooth or minutely papillose, dull yellow, 1/2-3/4 lin. long; segments erect, broadly rounded, equalling or slightly longer than the tube; filaments capillary, shorter than the anther; anthers subexserted or subincluded, elliptical or subovate, obtuse, smooth, pale brown, 1/4-2/5 lin. long, muticous; pore about 1/3 the length of the cell; style included or exserted; stigma cyathiform or peltate, large; ovary thinly hispidulous, glabrescent.
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Erect shrub to over 2 m. Flowers small, urn-shaped, cream-coloured to greenish, hairy.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Erica leucopelta world distribution map, present in Lesotho, eSwatini, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:329011-1
WFO ID wfo-0000672467
COL ID 6GLTQ
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Synonyms

Erica leucopelta Ericoides barbatum Erica unibracteata Ericoides unibracteatum Eurystegia pannosa Erica barbata Erica leucopelta var. leucopelta