Species Felicia muricata
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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 This superseded the Parisian Encyclopedie of Diderot and d’Alembert published between 1751 and 1772.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 muricata:
From the Latin muricata = 'spiny' (like the purple fish, a murex), in reference to its elongate dorsal and pectoral-fin spines
Scientific name:
Felicia muricata (Thunb.) Nees
Common names:
Taai-Astertjie
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Protologue:
Gen. Sp. Aster. 210
Synonym status:
Almost glabrous shrublet to 70 cm. Leaves linear, ascending. Flower heads lilac or white with yellow disc. Nov.--Apr. Flats and mountains, KM, LB, SE (Oudtshoorn and Swellendam to tropical Africa).
Observations of Taxon
Felicia muricata
Name of observer:
Sasa Malan (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Felicia muricata
Name of observer:
Braam van Wyk and Sasa Malan (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Felicia muricata subsp. muricata
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Name of observer:
Pauline Bohnen (David)
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Date observed unknown
Felicia muricata
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Name of observer:
Katryn van Heerden (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Felicia muricata
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Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
14/11/2010 - 1:56pm
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