Species Erica sparrmannii
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There aren’t any identifications of Erica sparrmannii.
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Etymology of Erica:
Gk. ereike = to break. The name used for a heath by Theophrastus (372–287 BCE) and Pliny the Elder. The stems are brittle and break easily (Lindsay); or possibly but less likely because of the ability of the plant to break up bladder stones (Paxton’s Botanical Dictionary).
Etymology of sparrmannii:
For Anders Erikson Sparrman (1748–1820), Swedish botanist and physician, and pupil of Linnaeus who visited the Cape in 1772, where he botanised around Cape Town with Carl Peter Thunberg.
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Long etymology:
Erect shrublet to 1 m. Flowers large, tubular, greenish yellow, coarsely hairy. Jan.--Dec. Flats and lower slopes, SE (Uniondale to Humansdorp).
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Erica sparrmannii.
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