Erica salax Salisb.

Species

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Characteristics

Branches numerous, fastigiate, pubescent; leaves subspreading, lanceolate, acute, sulcate, thick, shining, minutely serrulate, glabrous, 1-1 1/4 lin. long; flowers 3-nate; pedicels pubescent, 1/2 lin. or more long; bracts subapproximate, small; sepals ovate, acute, very concave, keeled, scarious, ciliolate, 2/3 lin. long; corolla broad-cyathiform, broader than its length, barely 1 lin. long; segments broad-ovate, obtuse, erect, in length equalling or twice that of the tube; filaments rather broad, about as long as the anther; anthers narrow-ovate, subacute, minutely ciliolate on the front margin, about 2/5 lin. long, aristate; pore over 1/2 the length of the cell; awns setiform, roughly ciliolate, about 1/3 the length of the cell; style subincluded; stigma peltate, just manifest; ovary glabrous.
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Erect, sprawling shrublet to 30 cm. Flowers small, broadly cyathiform, white.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Distribution

Erica salax world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:329550-1
WFO ID wfo-0000673174
COL ID 6GLPY
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Synonyms

Erica salax Ericoides salax Erica ramosissima