Species Felicia zeyheri
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There aren’t any identifications of Felicia zeyheri.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Felicia:
Origin uncertain. La. felix = happy, cheerful, though in the neuter plural form felicia = happy things; possibly a reference to the bright flowers. Other sources vaguely refer to a mysterious German official in Regensburg called Felix who died in 1846 but speculatively and more probably for the Italian Fortunato Bartolomeo de Felice (1723–1789), an Italian scholar established in Yverdon who led the European team that wrote the Yverdon Encyclopedia, published between 1770 and 1780 in 58 quarto volumes. This superseded the Parisian Encyclopedie of Diderot and d’Alembert published between 1751 and 1772.
Etymology of zeyheri:
Named in honour of the renowned plant collector Carl (Karl) Ludwig Philipp Zeyher (1799-1858). One of South Africa's foremost botanical collectors who is synonymous with his collecting partner Ecklon. He began collecting in the Cape in 1822, undertook a major expedition to Kaffraria (the Eastern Cape) 1831-1832 and to the Transvaal from 1840-1842.
Scientific name:
Felicia zeyheri (Less.) Nees
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Long etymology:
Ecklon died in Cape Town from smallpox during the epidemic of 1858.
Protologue:
Gen. Sp. Aster. 215
Synonym status:
Roughly hairy to almost glabrous shrublet to 30 cm. Leaves linear to oblanceolate. Flower heads radiate, solitary, blue or purple with yellow disc. Mainly Oct.--Apr. Rocky slopes, KM, SE (Oudtshoorn to E Cape).
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There aren’t any identifications of Felicia zeyheri.