PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / ERICALES / ERICACEAE / ERICOIDEAE / ERICEAE / ERICA / JASMINIFLORA

Erica jasminiflora Salisb.
CR Indigenous Endemic
Morphological description

Erect, glabrous shrub up to 60 cm (2 ft) or more. Branches slender, closely leafy. Leaves 3-nate, 6-10 mm long, adpressed, imbricate or scarcely so, narrow oval, sulcate, mucronate, gland-ciliate. Flowers terminal, 1- to 3-nate; peduncles 8 mm long, slender, viscid; bracts median, 5-7 mm long, linear. Sepals 1-1.25 cm long, linear-oblong, acute, concave, sulcate, viscid, gland-ciliate. Corolla up to 3.2 cm long, 3 mm wide, cylindrical with a slight swelling at the throat, viscid, white or pale rose with deeper red veins; lobes stellately spreading, about 10 mm, ovate, obtuse, white or striped. Filaments slender, dilated above; anthers included, 3 mm long, subcrescent-shaped, acuminate, acutely bilobed and prognathous at the base, pallid, muticous. Ovary cylindrical, subsessile; style included; stigma capitate. From: Baker, HA; Oliver, EGH. 1967. Ericas in southern Africa. Purnell, Cape Town. [All rights reserved]

Erect, sparse shrublet to 60 cm. Flowers large, narrowly tubular with very broad, spreading lobes, white with red-striped tube, sticky. From: Oliver, EGH. 2012. Ericaceae. 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. [CC BY]

Diagnostic description

Jasminium = the jasmine; flora = flowers; referring to the shape of the flowers. From: Baker, HA; Oliver, EGH. 1967. Ericas in southern Africa. Purnell, Cape Town. [All rights reserved]

Habitat

On sandy flats and hills. From: Baker, HA; Oliver, EGH. 1967. Ericas in southern Africa. Purnell, Cape Town. [All rights reserved]

Clay hills. From: Oliver, EGH. 2012. Ericaceae. 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. [CC BY]

Distribution

Cape Province. From: Baker, HA; Oliver, EGH. 1967. Ericas in southern Africa. Purnell, Cape Town. [All rights reserved]

Caledon. From: Oliver, EGH. 2012. Ericaceae. 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. [CC BY]

Flowering time

January

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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 jasminiflora Salisb.

Published in: Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 293 (1796)

Synonym(s)

Classification

KINGDOM Plantae

SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae

PHYLUM Anthophyta

ORDER Ericales

FAMILY Ericaceae

SUBFAMILY Ericoideae

TRIBE Ericeae

GENUS Erica

SPECIES jasminiflora

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Specimen records

Barcode: PRE0318748-0 Collector(s) & number: Kerr, I, PRE 49349 | 1960-11-

South Africa, Gauteng, JOHANNESBURG

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Barcode: PRE0318747-0 Collector(s) & number: von Below, II, PRE 30094 | 1959-12-

South Africa, Western Cape, CALEDON DIST.; SHAWS PASS

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Barcode: NBG0037533-2 Collector(s) & number: Compton, RH, 23039 | 1951-12-1

South Africa, Western Cape, Caledon. Shaws Mountain.

General notes: Mountain. Flowers white.

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Barcode: SAM0062508-0 Collector(s) & number: Lewis, GJ, 2718 | 1957-1-

South Africa, Western Cape, Caledon Div. Lower northern slopes of Shaws Pass.

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Barcode: NBG0037533-1 Collector(s) & number: Compton, RH, 23039 | 1951-12-1

South Africa, Western Cape, Caledon. Shaws Mountain.

General notes: Mountain. Flowers white.

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Barcode: NBG0037532-1 Collector(s) & number: Barker, WF, 7205 | 1951-1-24

South Africa, Western Cape, Caledon. Shaws Pass, Northern side.

General notes: Mountain. Flowers pale pink, reverse side with one brown edge. Tube ribbed.

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Barcode: NBG0112730-0 Collector(s) & number: Barker, HA, 1279 | 1958-1-

South Africa, Western Cape, Caledon. Shaw's Pass. On Caledon side of road.

General notes: Roadside. Flowers white or pale rose with veins. Upright sparingly branched shrublet to 2 ft. Now confined to one small area.

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Barcode: NBG0037534-0 Collector(s) & number: Dunston, NBG1581/33 | 1938-1-21

South Africa, Western Cape, Caledon, Shaw's Mountain.

General notes: Mountain.

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Barcode: PRE0318746-0 Collector(s) & number: Esterhuysen, EE, 19279A | 1951-12-1

South Africa, Western Cape, CALEDON DIST.; SHAWS PASS; HILLSIDE ALONG RD. ON N. SIDE OF SHAWS PASS

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Barcode: NBG0256406-0 Collector(s) & number: Oliver, EGH, 12612 | 2010-2-9

South Africa, Western Cape, Hermanus area. Hemel-en-Aarde Valley on Diepgat 597. 34° 21' 47.0"S, 19° 21' 06.96"E. Grid from Google Earth.

General notes: Alt. 300 m. Gravelly hillock with short Leucadendron dominated fynbos on SE-facing slope. Numerous very sparsely branched inconspicuous shrublets to 500-750 mm tall. Flowers mostly past peak flowering, white to pinkish with fluted tubes, the furrows reddish, good signs of developing fruits. Voucher for DNA.

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Barcode: NBG0274005-0 Collector(s) & number: Cowell, C, MSBP 4281 | 2010-4-22

South Africa, Western Cape, Caledon. Hemel en Aarde valley. Farm adjacent to Maanskynkop reserve.

General notes: Fynbos biome. Gentle hill slope. Vegetation type: Mountain Fynbos. No wetland. Well-drained, sandy and loam soil. Sandstone. SW aspect. Cinservation area. Shrub. Pink flowers flowering. Sparsely branched shrub, sticky tubulor flowers, large corolla lobes. Voucher for MSB. Plant height: 0.4 m.

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Barcode: PRE0318745-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 9031 | 1951-1-24

South Africa, Western Cape, CALEDON DIST.; 5 MI. S. OF CALEDON

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Barcode: NBG0184336-0 Collector(s) & number: Oliver, EGH, 8624 | 1984-12-10

South Africa, Western Cape, Shaw's Pass, Caledon ex hort Kirtenbosch.

General notes: Large sparse rounded shrubs to 1m.

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Barcode: NBG0037532-2 Collector(s) & number: Barker, WF, 7205 | 1951-1-24

South Africa, Western Cape, Caledon. Shaws Pass, Northern side.

General notes: Mountain. Flowers pale pink, reverse side with one brown edge. Tube ribbed.

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Barcode: SAM0049846-0 Collector(s) & number: Dunsdon, J, s.n. | 1931-12-

South Africa, Western Cape, French Hoek Mountains.

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Barcode: SAM0051312-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 5148 | 1934-12-19

South Africa, Western Cape, 5 ½ miles S. of Caledon.

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Observation records

Date: 4/21/2022 10:03:28 AM

Western Cape

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Barcode: 120518.0 | Collector(s) & number: Ryder, EF , Unkown |

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Barcode: 120519.0 | Collector(s) & number: Langschmidt , Unkown |

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Barcode: 120521.0 | Collector(s) & number: Dunsdon, L , Unkown |

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Barcode: 120520.0 | Collector(s) & number: Esterhuysen, EE , Unkown |

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Barcode: 120522.0 | Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM , Unkown |

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Barcode: 120516.0 | Collector(s) & number: Steer, J , Unkown |

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Date: 11/27/2020 7:45:00 AM

Western Cape

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Date: 2/18/2020 10:17:00 AM

Western Cape

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Date: 2/18/2020 10:11:00 AM

Western Cape

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Date: 2/18/2020 10:30:00 AM

Western Cape

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Date: 2/18/2020 10:46:00 AM

Western Cape, South Africa

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Date: 2/18/2020 10:38:00 AM

Western Cape, South Africa

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Date: 2/18/2020 10:33:00 AM

Western Cape, South Africa

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Date: 2/18/2020 10:30:00 AM

Western Cape, South Africa

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Date: 2/26/2020 10:12:00 AM

Western Cape, South Africa

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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

1967

BOOK

Ericas in southern Africa Baker, HA; Oliver, EGH

Purnell, Cape Town

1994.

BOOK

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ENDANGERED SPECIES. 1088 - GOLDEN GLADIOLUS.1090 - ALOE BOWIEA. 1094 - HAWORTHIA MARGINATA. 1106 - RESTIO ACOCKII.1136 - ERICA JASMINIFLORA. 1141 - EUPHORBIA OBESA. 1164 - LEUCADENDRON HILTON-TAYLOR,C

Harry Molteno Library

: IUCN, 1994.

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