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Felicia welwitschii

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Identification
Felicia welwitschii (Hiern) Grau [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Felicia barbellata S.Moore [family ASTERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Aster eylesii
  • Detris ericifolia
  • Erigeron welwitschii
  • Erigeron arthrotrichus
  • Erigeron grantii
  • Felicia eylesii
  • Felicia welwitschii
  • Felicia barbellata
  • Felicia abyssinica

Flora

Entry for FELICIA welwitschii (Hiern) J. Grau [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 315, (2002) Author: H.J. BEENTJE
Names
FELICIA welwitschii (Hiern) J. Grau [family COMPOSITAE], in Mitt. Bot. Staats., München 9: 459, fig. 109 (1973) & in Kirkia 12: 8 (1980); Lisowski, Aster. Fl. Afr. Centr. 1: 36 (1991). Type: Angola, Huila, between Catumba and Hai, Welwitsch 3448 (K!, holo., BM, LISU, iso.)
Felicia fischeri O. Hoffm. [family COMPOSITAE], in P.O.A. C: 407 (1895). Syntypes: Tanzania, Mwanza District, Kagehi, Fischer 336, 371 (B†, syn.)
Erigeron welwitschii Hiern [family COMPOSITAE], Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1 (3): 548 (1898)
Felicia barbellata S. Moore [family COMPOSITAE], in J.L.S. 37: 314 (1906). Type: Angola, Poinca Uremba, Gossweiler 1150 (K!, iso.)
Felicia eylesii S. Moore [family COMPOSITAE], in J.B. 64: 304 (1926). Type: Zimbabwe, Rua R., Eyles 1335 (K!, holo., BM, M, SAM, SRGH, iso.)
Information
Annual or short-lived perennial herb to 50(–120) cm high, only slightly branched in its distal part; stems red-brown, hispidulous. Leaves proximally opposite, distally alternate, green, often with reddish tinge, sessile, linear to lanceolate, 2–6 cm long, 0.2–0.5 cm wide, with revolute margins, acute, hispidulous especially on the margins and midrib. Capitula terminal in lax leafy corymbs, the individual capitula 5–9 mm long; peduncles 1.5–6 cm long, hispidulous and glandular; phyllaries 4-seriate, green and often with a reddish tinge, with white margins, the outermost smallest, lanceolate, 2–5 mm long, 0.3–1 m wide, the margins scarious, ± laciniate, acute to acuminate, glandular, sparsely to densely scabridulous. Ray florets ± 25, white fading to pale red, the tube ± 2 mm long, the ray 3–12 mm long, 0.5–2 mm wide; disc florets many, cream, the distal part fading to reddish, tube 3.3–4.5 mm long, lobes 0.2–0.3 mm long. Achenes brown with paler margin, compressed-obovoid, ± 1.3 mm long, 0.5 mm wide, scabridulous; pappus hairs many, white, 3–4 mm long, subplumose. 
Range
DISTR. T 1 (see note), 8
Altitude range
850–950 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Songea District Lumecha Bridge, May 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 9888! & Litungura, June 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 10585!
Distribution (external)
; Congo (Kinshasa)
Angola
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Notes
The types of F. fischeri have been destroyed, and the protologue does not give much help; I agree with Grau that it is probably the same as F. welwitschii but as this situation remains uncertain it would be foolish to invoke the priority principle here.

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