Feedback request: Erica carnea (29287)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #354269

Taxon:	Ericaceae: Erica carnea L. ("Winter Heath")
Filed in taxon folder:	Ericaceae: Erica carnea L. ("Winter Heath")
Collected by:	Mr Frederick Hamilton Davey
Collection date:	19/4/1901
Locality:	Great Britain, VC1 West Cornwall, Perran Bay, SW75, Perran Wharf
ex herb:	Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
collector's number:	4718
notes:	see note on sheet 4720 [http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/354474/ same info]
Filing note:	Erica mediterranea

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Documented by oldnick on 16^th January 2013.

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date	user	change
18/01/2013	oldnick	Deleted note: see note on sheet 4720
18/01/2013	oldnick	Added note: see note on sheet 4720 [http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/354474/ same info]

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oldnick wrote

Same species as E erigena? Not native in Gt Britain?

[mossysal]

Fl. Europaea gives E carnea as a synonym for E herbacea

Distribution: Al Au Cz Ga Ge He It Ju ?Rm

[oldnick]

I still wonder whether E carnea is the right name. The specimens entered on H@H as E carnea 'Winter Heath', seem to be all 'E mediterranea' ie Irish Heath, E erigena in Stace 2. I don't know whether this has changed in Stace 3. Stace 2 does not list E carnea (nor does CTW2), but his reference to 'E erigena x E carnea = E x darleyensis' of garden origin introduced in England and not found in Ireland, suggests he sees E carnea as a species not occurring in Britain or Ireland. CTW2 gives E mediterranea (erigena) as occurring in Portugal, Spain and W France. I don't know whether the Cornish garden escape of Davey may also be E x darleyensis which is not in CTW2, and in Stace2 seems to be given as wild in W Cornwall only after the 1930s.

[mossysal]

Stace 3 says: "E. carnea [under Other species] is the commonest cultivated winter/spring-flowering sp. and may persist and vegetatively spread after neglect; it differs from E. erigena as does E x darleyensis, but is even less robust with weak trailing or decumbent stems, and differs from both in having the flanges of tissue running from each leaf-base down to the next lower one scarcely changing in prominence along their length, rather than conspicuously narrowing downwards."
HTH
Sarah

[oldnick]

Thanks, I'll suggest a re-edit of the name to E erigena on 'help & support'