Felicia erigeroides

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Felicia erigeroides
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Felicia erigeroides
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Felicia
Section: Felicia sect. Felicia
Species:
F. erigeroides
Binomial name
Felicia erigeroides
DC

Felicia erigeroides, commonly known as wild Michaelmas daisy, isithelelo or ixhaphozi, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae native to South Africa, where it is found from Humansdorp to KwaZulu-Natal. [1]

Felicia erigeroides was first described in 1836 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. [2] Harvey reclassified it as Aster erigoides, [3] but this was an illegitimate name. [4]

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References

  1. "Felicia erigeroides | PlantZAfrica".
  2. de Candolle, Augustin Pyramus (1836). Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis. Vol. 5. Paris: Sumptibus Sociorum Treuttel et Würtz. p. 219.
  3. Flora capensis :being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape colony, Caffraria, & Port Natal (And neighbouring territories). Vol. 3. 1864.
  4. "Aster erigeroides (DC.) Harv. — the Plant List".