In its botanical character this new species (described in 1980) is almost identical to E. mackaiana, but is quite unlike it in habit, making a stouter and stiffer shrub to 4 ft or slightly more in height and looking like E. terminalis when seen from a distance. It was described from plants growing on weathered but still toxic spoil tips around the mines north of Huelva in south-west Spain, but has also been found on more natural soils in this district. See further in the Heather Society Year Book for 1983, pp. 35-6 and Kew Magazine, Vol. 2(3), pp. 324-30 (1985).
Erica andevalensis Cabezudo & Rivera
Genus
Other species in the genus
- Erica arborea L.
- Erica australis L.
- Erica canaliculata Andrews
- Erica carnea
- Erica ciliaris L.
- Erica cinerea L.
- Erica × darleyensis Bean
- Erica erigena R. Ross
- Erica herbacea L.
- Erica lusitanica Rudolphi
- Erica mackaiana Bab.
- Erica mediterranea
- Erica multiflora L.
- Erica pageana L. Bolus
- Erica scoparia L.
- Erica terminalis Salisb.
- Erica tetralix L.
- Erica umbellata L.
- Erica vagans L.
- Erica × veitchii Bean
- Erica × williamsii Druce