Erica mundii Guthrie & Bolus

Species

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Characteristics

Erect, rigid; branches puberulous and hispid; leaves 3-nate, spreading, not crowded, oblanceolate or oblong, acute, rarely subobtuse, open-backed with reflexed margins, sometimes almost flat, ciliate on margins and on midrib, occasionally hairy below, glabrous above, the upper sometimes oblong, sulcate, and apparently subterete, by the more strongly revolute margins, or even all the leaves so, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; flowers terminal, 3-nate, or umbellate and 4-6-flowered; pedicels slender, 3/4-2 lin. long; bracts remote, small, adpressed; sepals linear-subulate or lanceolate, acute, foliaceous, callous-pointed, coloured, viscid, about 1 lin. long; corolla cyathiform, mouth scarcely contracted or widened, glabrous or minutely hairy, viscidulous, 3/4 to a little over 1 lin. long, and about the same in width; segments erect, subdeltoid, about 1/3 the length of the tube; filaments slender, equal; anthers included or subexserted, lateral, dorsifixed shortly above the base, cuneate-oblong, 1/2 lin. long or slightly less, muticous; pore 1/2 the length of the cell; style shortly-exserted, stout, curved; stigma capitate, somewhat large; ovary subturbinate, glabrous below, thinly and shortly hairy above, or entirely glabrous.
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Erect shrublet to 50 cm. Flowers small, cup-shaped, pink.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Distribution

Erica mundii world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:329158-1
WFO ID wfo-0000672668
COL ID 6GM6Z
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Synonyms

Erica mundii