Erica nematophylla Guthrie & Bolus

Species

Angiosperms > Ericales > Ericaceae > Erica

Characteristics

Branches slender, glabrous, the younger deeply channelled between the long prominent leaf-cushions; leaves 6-nate or somewhat scattered, erect or spreading, with a long hair-like pallid petiole, slender-linear, subtrigonous, keeled, acute, glabrous, 1/2-3/4 lin. long; flowers more or less crowded towards the ends of the branches; pedicels slender, puberulous, 1/4-1/3 in. long; bracts remote, narrow-linear, 1 1/2 lin. long; sepals linear from an ovate base, long-acuminate, minutely gland-ciliate, deep-red, 1 1/2-2 1/2 lin. long; corolla clavate-tubular, slightly inflated above the middle, thence gradually contracted towards the apex, glabrous or minutely velvety or puberulous, dry, 5 lin. long; limb short, rounded, erect; filaments 3 lin. long; anthers included, dorsifixed near the base, oblong, obtuse, about 4/5 lin. long, muticous or sometimes minutely decurrent-denticulate shortly below the anther; pore 2/5 the length of the cell; style exserted, stout; stigma rather large, capitate; ovary exactly that of preceding and next species.
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Erect shrublet to 50 cm. Flowers large, tubular, white.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Distribution

Erica nematophylla world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:329180-1
WFO ID wfo-0000672695
COL ID 6GLWX
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Synonyms

Erica nematophylla Erica filamentosa var. longiflora