Species Felicia filifolia
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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 This superseded the Parisian Encyclopedie of Diderot and d’Alembert published between 1751 and 1772.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 filifolia:
From the Latin fili = 'thread' or 'string' and folius = 'leaf' ; the leaf is long and narrow
Scientific name:
Felicia filifolia (Vent.) Burtt Davy
Common names:
Draaibossie
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Synonym of:
Unknown
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Protologue:
Ann. Transvaal Mus. 3: 122 (1912)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1912
Like F. fruticosa but the leaves filiform and needle-like. Mainly Oct.--Dec. Flats and slopes, NW, SW, KM, LB, SE (Namibia to Port Elizabeth to Mpumalanga).
Observations of Taxon
Felicia filifolia
Name of observer:
Sasa Malan (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Felicia filifolia
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Name of observer:
Auriol Batten (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Felicia filifolia
Name of observer:
Braam van Wyk and Sasa Malan (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Felicia filifolia subsp. schaeferi
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Name of observer:
Riaan de Villiers (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Felicia filifolia
Name of observer:
Elsa Pooley (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown