Erica massoniiL.f.

Masson's Heath

WFO wfo-0000672581 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Erica massonii, photographed by linkie
fig. a linkie, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-28 / obs. 162254059
Erica massonii, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 100136471
Erica massonii, photographed by douglaseustonbrown
fig. c douglaseustonbrown, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 59436862
Erica massonii, photographed by Michael D. Pirie
fig. d Michael D. Pirie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 33430797
Erica massonii, photographed by Chris Vynbos
fig. e Chris Vynbos, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 13915833
Erica massonii, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 11958291
Erica massonii, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 11958030
Erica massonii, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 11958647

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Erica massonii is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Erica massonii, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 65 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Callista acuminata (Andrews) G.Don
  • Callista bedfordiana G.Don
  • Callista bucciniflora (Sims) G.Don
  • Callista calostoma G.Don
  • Callista magnifica (Andrews) G.Don
  • Callista metuliflora (J.Sim) G.Don
  • Callista quadrangularis (Andrews) G.Don
  • Callista rigida (G.Lodd. ex J.Forbes) G.Don
  • Callista stellifera G.Don
  • Callista swainsoniana G.Don
  • Callista templeana G.Don
  • Callista undulata G.Don
  • Erica acuminata Andrews
  • Erica adjuvans Klotzsch
  • Erica ambigua J.C.Wendl.
  • Erica andrewsii Klotzsch
  • Erica bibracteata Klotzsch
  • Erica bucciniflora Sims
  • Erica calamiformis Salisb.
  • Erica calostoma (G.Don) G.Lodd. ex Benth.
  • Erica calostoma G.Lodd.
  • Erica carinata G.Sinclair
  • Erica carinata G.Lodd.
  • Erica culcitiflora Salisb.

and 41 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.