Species Felicia tenella
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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 This superseded the Parisian Encyclopedie of Diderot and d’Alembert published between 1751 and 1772.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 tenella:
From the Latin tenellus meaning ‘somewhat tender’
Scientific name:
Felicia tenella (L.) Nees
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Unknown
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Protologue:
Gen. Sp. Aster. 208
Synonym status:
Thinly hairy annual 5--25 cm. Leaves linear, scabrid on the margins. Flower heads radiate, solitary, blue, violet or white with yellow disc. Mainly Aug.--Nov. Near water or coastal dunes, NW, SW, AP, LB (Bokkeveld Mts to Albertinia).
Observations of Taxon
Felicia tenella
Name of observer:
Hilda Mason (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Felicia tenella
Name of observer:
Hilda Mason (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Felicia tenella
Name of observer:
Anne Bean & Amida Johns (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Felicia tenella
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
08/09/2012 - 3:34pm
Collection:
Felicia tenella
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
07/09/2013 - 3:52pm
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