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the web of life in southern Africa

Erica: section Gigandra

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Asterids > Order: Ericales > Family: Ericaceae > Genus: Erica

Species native to southern Africa

Erica coccinea

Distribution: South Africa > Western Cape 

Erica coccinea

Erica melastoma

 

Erica plukenetii

Distribution: South Africa > Western Cape 

 

Publications

  • Oliver, E.G.H. & Oliver, I.M. 2003. Ericaceae. In Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds), Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 424-451. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. 

  • Schumann, D., Kirsten, G & Oliver, E.G.H. 1992. Ericas of South Africa. Fernwood Press, Cape Town.