Erica maritima Guthrie & Bolus

Species

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Characteristics

Stem stout, much and intricately branched; branches divaricate, rigid, cinereo-puberulous, soon glabrescent; leaves erect, subadpressed, only a little longer than the internodes, oblong, subacute, slightly curved from the middle outwards, sulcate, thickish, glabrous, 1-1 1/4 lin. long; flowers in few-flowered clusters at the ends of lateral branchlets; pedicels about 1/2 lin. long; bracts basal or nearly so, small, subscarious, shining; sepals lanceolate, subacute, subscarious, concave, rigid, keel-tipped, glabrous, 1/3 lin. long; corolla broad-cyathiform, widened to the mouth, veined, glabrous, about 5/8 lin. long; segments erect, semi-ovate, narrowed to the apex but scarcely acute, about 2/3 the length of the tube; filaments linear, rather broad, veined, in length equalling the anther; anthers subexserted, ovate, obtuse, smooth, pale brown, membranous, from 1/4-1/3 lin. long, mutinous; pore broad-elliptical, large for the section, about 2/3 the length of the cell; style exserted; stigma peltate; ovary minutely hispidulous.
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Erect shrublet to 30 cm. Flowers tiny, cup-shaped, dull cream-coloured to brownish.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Distribution

Erica maritima world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:329084-1
WFO ID wfo-0000672574
COL ID 6GM72
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Synonyms

Erica maritima