Species Felicia karooica
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There aren’t any identifications of Felicia karooica.
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 This superseded the Parisian Encyclopedie of Diderot and d’Alembert published between 1751 and 1772.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 karooica:
From the Khoisan/Khoekhoe word garo /karo / !garo-b = 'desert' or 'hard'; referring to the inland semi-desert Karoo region of South Africa
Scientific name:
Felicia karooica Compton
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Protologue:
J. S. African Bot. 8: 263 (1942)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1942
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Felicia karooica.