Botanical name

Erica viscaria subsp. pustulata

Family

Ericaceae

Status

Vulnerable

Erica viscaria subsp. pustulata
Erica viscaria subsp. pustulata
Erica viscaria subsp. pustulata

Description

Erect shrublet with crowded, overlapping, pointed leaves. Greenish-yellow flowers are crowded at tips of branches, tubular, flaring at the mouth.

This species is highly threatened by too frequent fires.

Very similar to Erica viscaria subsp.macrocepala but corolla is markedly shorter and flowers are crowded at the tips of branches.

Habitat

Sandstone slopes on Kleinrivier mountains

Flower Date

All year