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Erica arborea L.

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Erica arborea L.
Erica arborea L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Erica arborea L.
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Erica arborea

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arborea

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Erica arborea L.

Shrub or small tree to c. 5 m high. Shoots densely hairy or puberulent with copious echinate hairs, especially on young main shoots, occasionally hairs almost simple and very short. Lvs in whorls of 3-4, 3-7 mm long; margins revolute, contiguous and entirely concealing undersurface; apparent or false margin sometimes with hairs giving a serrulate appearance, otherwise lf glabrous; petiole very short. Fls in lateral racemes; racemes often densely arranged so appearing as a terminal panicle. Pedicels 2-3 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles c. 1 mm long, linear to lanceolate, whitish, inserted on lower 1/2 of pedicel, not reaching calyx, ciliate. Calyx 1-2 mm long, whitish; lobes ovate, ciliolate, obtuse, 2-3× length of tube. Corolla 2.5-4 mm long, urceolate-campanulate, white, glabrous; lobes c. 1 mm long, erect, very broadly ovate. Stamens included; anthers c. 1 mm long, rose or crimson; awns short, echinate or plumose. Style exserted; stigma broad-capitate. Capsule c. 2 mm long, ± broad-oblong, glabrous.

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Erica arborea L.
Erica arborea L.
Erica arborea L.

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Erica arborea L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Erica arborea L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Erica arborea L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Erica arborea L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Erica arborea L.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Erica arborea L.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Erica arborea L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
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