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Erica sparrmanni L.f.

Ericaceae · Cape Provinces

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Summary

Erica sparrmanni is a species of flowering plant belonging to the genus Erica. The species is endemic to the Cape Provinces. The specific epithet has subsequently been spelt in various ways, but the original description by Carl Linnaeus the Younger used sparrmanni. The International Plant Names Index notes that this is based on the Latinized name "Sparrmannus".

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Erica sparrmanni", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the keys of the names Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 7423607 (Ericoides sparrmanni (L.fil.) Kuntze, 0 records), 7910045 (Dasyanthes sparrmanni (L.fil.) D.Don, 0 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeCape Provinces · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced records inside the stated native range.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 7423607 (Ericoides sparrmanni (L.fil.) Kuntze): Kew's file holds it as Ericoides sparrmanni (L.f.) Kuntze (synonym under Erica sparrmanni L.f.); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.Records also from GBIF's key 7910045 (Dasyanthes sparrmanni (L.fil.) D.Don): Kew's file holds it as Dasyanthes sparrmanni (L.f.) D.Don (synonym under Erica sparrmanni L.f.); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.

Photographs

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Photographs: Andrew massyn, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Abu Shawka, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Derek Keats from Johannesburg, South Africa, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (4).

Other Erica 102 in the reference

Erica abietina Erica abietina Honeysuckle heath Photo: CC BY, Jessica UtrupErica afra Erica afra Ericaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Andrew massynErica alopecurus Erica alopecurus Foxtail Erica Photo: CC BY, Ren HoekstraErica arborea Erica arborea Tree heath Photo: CC BY, Ксения ВолянскаяErica australis Erica australis Spanish heath Photo: CC BY, Barry StewartErica azorica Erica azorica Azorean Heather Photo: CC BY, Rui RibeiroErica baccans Erica baccans Berry Heath Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloErica banksia Erica banksia Tutu Heath Photo: CC BY, André DeschodtErica bauera Erica bauera Albertinia Heath Photo: CC BY, Christiaan ViljoenErica blandfordia Erica blandfordia Wax Heath Photo: CC BY, Sarah VisserErica blenna Erica blenna Chinese Lantern Heath Photo: CC BY, Martjie Fia FourieErica bolusiae Erica bolusiae Sand Fynbos Heath Photo: CC BY-SA, Jacques van der Merwe all 103 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Ericoides sparrmanni; Erica aspera; Erica armata; Callista armata; Dasyanthes sparrmanni and 1 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Ericaceae
Described by
L.f.
Native to
Cape Provinces
Wild records
none in range

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Erica sparrmanni L.f. (plant_name_id 2794461), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; 0 records of GBIF's key 7423607, Ericoides sparrmanni (L.fil.) Kuntze (Kew's file holds it as Ericoides sparrmanni (L.f.) Kuntze (synonym under Erica sparrmanni L.f.)): GBIF occurrence search API; 0 records of GBIF's key 7910045, Dasyanthes sparrmanni (L.fil.) D.Don (Kew's file holds it as Dasyanthes sparrmanni (L.f.) D.Don (synonym under Erica sparrmanni L.f.)): GBIF occurrence search API
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 329630-1, POWO 329630-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence.

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