Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Erica cinerea
Ericaceae Juss.
Erica cinerea L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 352 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Habitat in Europa media."
Jarvis, C.E., & McClintock, D. (1990), Notes on the Typification of Fourteen Linnaean Names for European Species of Erica, Calluna, and Andromeda (Ericaceae). Taxon 39(3): 518 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "we here designate sheet 498.46 LINN as the lectotype of E. cinerea. This collection is also the lectotype of the generic name Erica, being the type of the type species (Art. 10. 1) selected by Don (1834)."
Barker, W.R., Barker, R.M., Jessop, J. & Vonow, H. (ed.) (18 March 2005), Census of South Australian Vascular Plants 5th Edition. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens Supplement 1: 111 APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Dist.: SA (naturalised)