Erica viscaria L. subsp. gallorum (L.Bolus) E.G.H.Oliv. & I.M.Oliv.
CR Indigenous Endemic

Morphological description

Corolla short 5-10(-12) mm long, elongate-campanulate to obconic with pink lower half and white mouth or sometimes pinkish throughout; hairs short and stout. From: Oliver, EGH; Oliver, IM. 2002. The genus Erica (Ericaceae) in southern Africa: taxonomic notes 1. Bothalia 32(1): 37-61. [CC BY]

Distribution

The subspecies is confined to the Nuweberg Reserve, Elgin, on the eastern and southeastern side of the Hottentots-Holland Mountains. From: Oliver, EGH; Oliver, IM. 2002. The genus Erica (Ericaceae) in southern Africa: taxonomic notes 1. Bothalia 32(1): 37-61. [CC BY]

Occurrence records map

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Residence status

Occurrence in the Flora of Southern Africa (FSA) countries and South African provinces. Residence status indicates if a taxon is indigenous, endemic, naturalised or invasive in a specific region. This data is based on specimen records and literature

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Names and Sources

Accepted name
Erica viscaria L. subsp. gallorum (L.Bolus) E.G.H.Oliv. & I.M.Oliv.

Published in: Bothalia 32(1): 56 (2002)

Synonym(s)

Erica longifolia F.A.Bauer subsp. gallorum (Andrews) E.G.H.Oliv. & I.M.Oliv., ms. (not published)


Erica viscaria auct. var. hispida Bolus, sensu Andrews


Erica echiiflora Andrews

Published in: Col. Engr. Heaths 3: 164 (1805)


Erica echiiflora Andrews var. purpurea Andrews

Published in: Col. Engr. Heaths: t.260 (1812)


Erica coccinea P.J.Bergius var. echiiflora (Andrews) Benth.

Published in: Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 7: 627 (1839)


Erica viscaria L. var. hispida Bolus

Published in: Fl. Cap. (Harvey) 4(1): 211 (1905)


Erica gallorum L.Bolus

Published in: Ann. Bolus Herb. 2: 155 (1918)


Classification

KINGDOM Plantae

SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae

SUBFAMILY Ericoideae

TRIBE Ericeae

GENUS Erica

SPECIES viscaria

SUBSPECIES gallorum

22 results for Erica viscaria L. subsp. gallorum (L.Bolus) E.G.H.Oliv. & I.M.Oliv.

Specimen records

Barcode: NBG0207154-0 Collector(s) & number: Stokoe, TP, 7851 | 1935--

South Africa, Western Cape, Nieweberg Settlement. Top of Viljoen's Pass.

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Barcode: PRE0337121-0 Collector(s) & number: Galpin, EE, 3524 | 1896-6-22

South Africa, Western Cape, SIR LOWRYS PASS

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Barcode: NBG1573200-0 Collector(s) & number: Musker, S.D., SM433 | 2020-7-15

South Africa, Western Cape, Hills E of Stanford valley estate.

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Barcode: NBG0112693-0 Collector(s) & number: Chater, SW, s.n. | 1974-10-2

South Africa, Western Cape, Nuweberg Forest Reserve. On ridge between forest station and Riviersonderend River.

General notes: On ridge. Flowers pink to white.

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Barcode: NBG1573201-0 Collector(s) & number: Musker, S.D., SM431 | 2020-7-15

South Africa, Western Cape, Hills E of Stanford valley estate.

General notes: Voucher, silica, photos.

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Barcode: NBG0102377-0 Collector(s) & number: Chater, SW, s.n. | 1974-9-26

South Africa, Western Cape, Nuweberg Forest Station. On ridge between forestry station and Riviersonderend. Gorge next to gravel scrape at side of track between main entrance road and bridge over Palmiet River.

General notes: Gorge. Area of growth about ½ acre. Flowers various shades of pink and white.

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Barcode: NBG0207155-0 Collector(s) & number: Hubbard, CE, 232 | 1932-9-30

South Africa, Western Cape, Nieuweberg Reserve.

General notes: Ex. Forest Dept. Herbarium. Herb. No. 232.

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Barcode: NBG0040496-0 Collector(s) & number: Stokoe, TP, 7851 | 1935-9-

South Africa, Western Cape, Nieweberg Settlement. Top of Viljoen's Pass.

General notes: Top of pass.

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Barcode: NBG1573199-0 Collector(s) & number: Musker, S.D., SM432 | 2020-7-15

South Africa, Western Cape, Hills E of Stanford valley estate.

General notes: Voucher, silica, photos.

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Barcode: NBG1574097-0 Collector(s) & number: Musker, S.D., SM528 | 2021-1-9

South Africa, Western Cape, Theewaterskloof Local Municipality. Track west of Ouwerf dam. Middle of jeep track on SE slope just above Ouwerf dam.

General notes: Voucher, silica, photos. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/68001972. Along imbricata, coccinea.

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Barcode: NBG0039142-0 Collector(s) & number: Bolus, 5548 | 1880--

South Africa, Western Cape, Hottentots' Holland. In mountains near Sir Lowry's Pass.

General notes: Alt. 900 ft. Growing on rocky slopes. 5548 Quoted in Flora Capensis, Vol. IV, Sect I, p. 211.

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Barcode: NBG0040497-0 Collector(s) & number: Compton, RH, 9232 | 1940-8-26

South Africa, Western Cape, Caledon Dist. Nieuweberg.

General notes: Alt. 2,500 ft. Flowers white or pink.

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Barcode: NBG0108403-0 Collector(s) & number: Kirsten, GPK, 546 | 1975-9-6

South Africa, Western Cape, Nuweberg Forest Reserve. Confined to small saddle facing east, south-east.

General notes: Alt. 2,100 ft. In open grass, confined to small saddle facing east, south-east. Upright, about 1 - 1½' tall. Dark velvety pink, pink & white, pure white.

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Barcode: NBG0207153-0 Collector(s) & number: Schumann, AW, 134 | 1983-10-20

South Africa, Western Cape, Grabouw - Villiersdorp road. Turn left into Nuweberg Forest Station. First right on district road for ± 2 km, to where road swings N on a W-facing slope.

General notes: Alt. 600 m. Wet W-facing, fairly gentle slope, with mainly restio & E. hispidula. Slight perfume. Colour variations marked among bushes, even on some bush. White to purple.

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Barcode: NBG0246526-0 Collector(s) & number: Turner, RC, 1896 | 2007-12-27

South Africa, Western Cape, Franschhoekberge. Western shore of Theewaterskloof Dam, on Erf Ouwerf 21/10. Severely transformed and alien-infested footslope, ± 1.470 km WSW of spot height 341 m. 34.01460662, 19.10875515.

General notes: Alt. 350 m. Very localised stand, only one seen, of ±7 plants, in disturbed, loamy soil with quartzitic sand and gravel. Plants single-stemmed, erect, well-branched, up to 500 mm tall, in full bloom. Flowers tubular-campanulate, finely hairy, slightly sticky, pale pink. Growing in assoc. with Erica curviflora and Erica multumbellifera in entirely transformed vegetation. Dense Pinus, Acacia and Eucalyptus infestation and earth-moving. Kogelberg Sandstone Fynbos on contact with Elgin Shale Fynbos.

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Barcode: PRE0351602-0 Collector(s) & number: Stokoe, TP, PRE 51727 | --

South Africa, Western Cape, HOTTENTOTS HOLLAND M

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Barcode: PRE0351598-0 Collector(s) & number: Charter, S, PRE 51726 | 1974-9-25

South Africa, Western Cape, NUWEBERG FOR. RES.; W. SIDE OF RIVIERSONDEREND , N. OF VILJOENS PASS

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Barcode: PRE0306368-0 Collector(s) & number: Bolus, 14029 | 1914-10-

South Africa, Western Cape, FRANSCHHOEK

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Observation records

Date: 1/9/2021 2:52:18 PM

Western Cape, South Africa

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Date: 7/15/2020 11:06:58 AM

Western Cape, South Africa

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Date: 7/15/2020 11:27:03 AM

Western Cape

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Date: 11/19/2022 12:43:06 PM

Western Cape

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2012

SERIES CHAPTER

Ericaceae Oliver, EGH

In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 482-511

South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria

2003

SERIES

Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist

Strelitzia 14: 1231-1231

Pretoria

2002

PERIODICAL/JOURNAL

The genus Erica (Ericaceae) in southern Africa: taxonomic notes 1 Oliver, EGH; Oliver, IM

Bothalia 32(1)37-61

1964

PERIODICAL/JOURNAL

Revision der südafrikanischen Arten der Gattung Erica L. Teil 1. Dulfer, H

Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 68: 79-147

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Bibliography

JOURNAL ARTICLE
Loveridge, A. 1947. Revision of the African lizards of the family Gekkonidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 98:1-469

JOURNAL ARTICLE
Branch, W.R., Bauer, A.M. and Good, D.A. 1995. Species limits in the <i>Phyllodactylus lineatus</i> complex (Reptilia: Gekkonidae), with the elevation of two taxa to specific status and the description of two new species. Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa. 44:33-54

JOURNAL ARTICLE
FitzSimons, V.F.M. 1943. The lizards of South Africa. Memoirs of the Transvaal Museum. 1:i-xv + 1-528, +24 pls + map

JOURNAL ARTICLE
FitzSimons, V.F.M. 1938. Transvaal Museum expedition to South-West Africa and Little Namaqualand, May to August 1937. Reptiles and amphibians.. Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 19:153-209

JOURNAL ARTICLE
Bauer, A.M., Good, D.A. and Branch, W.R. 1997. The taxonomy of the southern African leaf-toed geckos, with a review of Old World '<i>Phyllodactylus</i>' (Squamata: Gekkonidae) and the description of five new genera. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 49:447-497

EDITED BOOK
Bates, M.F., Branch, W.R., Bauer, A.M., Burger, M., Marais, J., Alexander, G.J. and de Villiers, M.S. 2014. Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. Suricata 1. South African National Biodiversity Institute

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