Species Felicia aethiopica
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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 This superseded the Parisian Encyclopedie of Diderot and d’Alembert published between 1751 and 1772.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 aethiopica:
From the Latin aethiopicus = 'Ethiopia'; pertaining frequently to Africa in general, not just Ethiopia.
Scientific name:
Felicia aethiopica (Burm. f.) Bolus & Wolley-Dod ex Adamson & T. M. Salter
Common names:
Wilde-Astertjie
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Unknown
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Synonym status:
Thinly hairy, soft shrublet to 1 m. Leaves elliptic to ovate, often deflexed. Flower heads radiate, solitary, blue with yellow disc. Jan.--Dec. Rocky flats and slopes, NW, SW, AP, KM, LB, SE (Cedarberg Mts to KwaZulu-Natal).
Observations of Taxon
Felicia aethiopica
Name of observer:
Anne Bean & Amida Johns (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Felicia aethiopica subsp. aethiopica
Name of observer:
Pauline Bohnen (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Felicia aethiopica subsp. ecklonis
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Name of observer:
Pauline Bohnen (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Felicia aethiopica
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Name of observer:
Maarten Groos (David)
Date observed:
19/07/2009 - 2:16pm
Collection:
Felicia aethiopica
Name of observer:
Yvette van Wijk (Yvette)
Date observed:
15/12/2012 - 2:43pm
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