Ericaceae
One of many species of shrub on Roraima. Please help me classify it – leave a comment
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Roraima heather (Ledothamnus guyanensis)
An endemic plant. I only found a couple with one flower each on my 2 day stay on Roraima. The flower is huge compared to the European heather, which instead has a large number of small flowers. This specimen was able to cling to life in a crack in the sandstone and seemed to have [...]
Ericaceae
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Roraima heather (Ledothamnus sessiliflorus)
This was the only one I found of the sessiflorus. It’s endemic. It grew underneath an outcrop, and in contrast to the guyanensis it was a big and dense specimen competing with other plants. This one very much resembles the guyanensis, but the flower differs with a lighter/paler red ring around the base of the [...]