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Erica lusitanica
(Ericaceae)
Portugese heath

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Taxonomy & nomenclature

GRIN nomenclature info for Erica lusitanica
Nomenclatural information about Erica lusitanica is provided by USDA/ARS/NGRP/GRIN.

Erica lusitanica information from ITIS
The Integrated Taxonomic Information System ITIS provides authoritative taxonomic information on Erica lusitanica, as well as other plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.

IPNI nomenclature info for Erica lusitanica
Nomenclatural information about Erica lusitanica is provided by The International Plant Names Index (IPNI).

Impacts

Erica lusitanica (Ericaceae): species information from GCW
Information on Erica lusitanica as relevant to Pacific Islands is provided by the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).

Risk assessments

Erica lusitanica weed risk assessment for Hawaii-Pacific
Results of a weed risk assessment for Erica lusitanica for the Hawaii-Pacific region are presented by the Hawaii-Pacific Weed Risk Assessment team.

Images

Images of Erica lusitanica (Ericaceae) (Spanish heath)
Links to high-resolution free images of Erica lusitanica (Ericaceae) (Spanish heath) by Forest & Kim Starr (USGS) are available here.

Books

Turning the tide: The eradication of invasive species (proceedings of the International Conference on Eradication of Island Invasives)
Veitch, C.R. and M.N. Clout (eds.) . 2002. Turning the tide: The eradication of invasive species (proceedings of the International Conference on Eradication of Island Invasives). IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. vii + 414pp. ISBN: 2-8317-0682-3.

In the news

Alien looks like a local but ruins environment View info about Adobe Acrobat PDF format
Spanish heath (Erica lusitanica) resembles native pukiawe but is a serious threat to native Hawaiian forests and to rangelands (MISC Kiai Moku article, 3/8/2009).

Full-text articles

Turning the tide: The eradication of invasive species (proceedings of the International Conference on Eradication of Island Invasives)
Veitch, C.R. and M.N. Clout (eds.) . 2002. Turning the tide: The eradication of invasive species (proceedings of the International Conference on Eradication of Island Invasives). IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. vii + 414pp. ISBN: 2-8317-0682-3.

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