6237.000 Erica L.

BLAERIA L.

PHILIPPIA Klotzsch

Ross, R. (1983) Ericaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(1)

Description of the genus

Trees, shrubs, or sub–shrubs, usually much branched with flexuously ascending sterns. Branchlets slender. Leaves normally in whorls of 3–4(6), or occasionally spirally inserted, very small, the margins usually revolute and meeting in the centre line on the under side of the leaf. Inflorescence normally consisting of capitate clusters of up to 20 flowers on the tips of the branchlets, but sometimes spicate with the flowers in the axils of leaves on branches whose vegetative growth may continue after flowering. Pedicels short and 1–flowered, normally bearing 1 bract and 2 opposite bracteoles. Calyx and corolla actinomorphic and hypogynous. Calyx segments 4, free or fused to a greater or lesser extent. Corolla globular to tubular, 4–lobed, the lobes usually appreciably shorter than the tube. Ovary 4 (8) loculate, placentation axile. Fruit a cartilaginous loculicidal capsule contained within the persistent calyx and corolla. Seeds several per loculus.

Worldwide: c. 735 species, most in the SW Cape; also in tropical Africa, Madagascar, Macaronesia and Europe

Zimbabwe: 12 taxa.

Erica hexandra

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
benguelensis (Welw. ex Engl.) E.G.H. Oliv. var. benguelensis N,C,EDescription, Image
evansii (N.E. Br.) E.G.H. Oliv.E
hexandra (S. Moore) E.G.H. Oliv.C,E,SDescription, Image
johnstoniana BrittenN,EDescription, Image
lanceolifera S. Moore[NrEnd][LR-lc]EDescription, Image
mannii (Hook. f.) Beentje subsp. pallidiflora (Engl.) E.G.H. Oliv.E,S
pleiotricha S. Moore[NrEnd][LR-nt]EDescription, Image
silvatica (Engl.) BeentjeEDescription, Image
simii (S. Moore) E.G.H. Oliv.[DD]EImage
whyteana BrittenE
wildii Brenan[NrEnd][LR-nt]E
woodii Bolus[LR-lc]N,EDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Erica:

Our websites:

Flora of Caprivi: cultivated Erica
Flora of Malawi: Erica
Flora of Mozambique: Erica
Flora of Zambia: Erica
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Erica

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Erica
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Erica
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Erica
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Erica
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Erica
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Erica
JSTOR Plant Science: Erica
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Erica
Plants of the World Online: Erica
Tropicos: Erica
Wikipedia: Erica

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Genus page: Erica.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1056, retrieved 28 March 2024

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