Family: Ericaceae
Erica baccans
Citation:
L., Mant. Alt. 233 (1771).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Berryflower heath.
Description:
Erect shrubs usually under 1.5 m high; young shoots almost concealed by leaves, glabrous; leaves linear, erect-incurved, glabrous except for a few marginal papillae, entire or obscurely serrulate, 4-7 mm long; margins not recurred.
Flowers in terminal 4-flowered clusters; pedicels glabrous, with three 4-5 mm long bracteoles attached below the middle; sepals c. 5 mm long, ovate, conspicuous, largely enclosing the corolla, pink, glabrous, not saccate; corolla broadly urceolate, with spreading lobes, pink, c. 5 mm long; anthers included, with crests nearly 1 mm long; ovary glabrous; stigma scarcely capitate.
Published illustration:
Rice & Compton (1950) Wild flowers of the Cape of Good Hope, pl. 91.
Distribution:
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There have been several records since 1975.
S.Aust.: SL, SE. Vic. Native to South Africa.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Aug. — Nov. (2 records).
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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:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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