Ericas of South AfricaThe authors have compiled some 450 species descriptions and illustrated each one with one or more superb colour photographs. The text, based on sound botanical knowledge but intended for lay rather than academic readership, hightights memorable features of each erica described. |
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600 mm high altitudes anthers are crested anthers are muticous aristate awns bear bell-shaped BENTH BENTHAM Betty's Bay botanical bracts branchlets Bredasdorp bush Caledon Cape Peninsula Cedarberg Ceres clusters corolla corolla is tubular covered cup-shaped December dense DULFER E. G. H. OLIVER erect shrub Erica Erica species floriferous flower heads flowering branch flowers are borne forms an erect Franschhoek genus Grabouw GUTH GUTHRIE & BOLUS H. A. BAKER habit habitat hairs hairy Harry Bolus Hottentots-Holland Kleinmond Kloof KLOTZSCH KLOTZSCH EX Kogelberg Ladismith Langeberg leaves LINNAEUS marsh moist mountain slopes Named in honour Nature Reserve November October Paarl pale pink pedicels pink flowers plants grow protruding range referring Riversdale Riviersonderend rocks SALISB SALISBURY 1802 sandy sea-level seepage areas sepals shape shrub Silvermine Nature Reserve South Africa species occurs specimen spikes sprawling stamens stigma Swartberg Swellendam tips Tulbagh typical umbels upright usually white flowers yellow