Family: Ericaceae
Erica lusitanica
Citation:
Rudolphi, J. Bot.(Schrader) 2:286 (1800).
Synonymy: Erica lusitanica Common name: Portuguese heath, Spanish heath.
Description:
Erect shrubs usually under 2 m high; young shoots densely hairy with smooth hairs only; leaves linear, suberect, glabrous, entire or minutely denticulate, 3-7 mm long; margins revolute, concealing the entire lower surface.
Flowers in lateral racemes forming much-branched many-flowered masses of flowers; pedicels glabrous, with 2 or 3 c. 0.5 mm long bracteoles below the middle; sepals c. 1 mm long, ovate, glabrous, not saccate; corolla broadly campanulate, with erect lobes, pinkish, 4-5 mm long; anthers included, with flat ciliate basal appendages; ovary glabrous; stigma obconical, red.
Published illustration:
Polunin & Smythies (1973) Flowers of south-west Europe, pl. 34.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: SL, SE. N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. New Zealand. Native to south-western Europe.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: mainly May — Sept.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
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