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Felicia zeyheri

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Name

Identification
Felicia zeyheri (Less.) Nees [family COMPOSITAE/ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by HBG-formal name change, 2007 Felicia fascicularis DC. [family COMPOSITAE/ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Aster hyssopifolius
  • Felicia ciliaris
  • Felicia natalensis
  • Agathaea unrecorded
  • Aster zeyheri
  • Felicia zeyheri
  • Felicia fascicularis

Flora

Entry for ASTER Zeyheri Less. [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 3, page 44, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
ASTER Zeyheri Less. [family COMPOSITAE], Syn. 177
Felicia Zeyheri Nees. [family COMPOSITAE], DC. l. c. p. 220. Zey.! 2756.
Information
shrubby, flexuous; branches pilose, becoming glabrous; leaves oblong-cuneate or obovate, flat, one-nerved, obtuse, glabrous, closely and rigidly ciliate; heads on long, glabrous or pilose peduncles; invol. scales glabrous, flat, linear-lanceolate, subacute; achenes thinly pubescent. A small, scrubby plant, 6–8 inches high, rigid and irregularly branched, the adult parts becoming glabrous. Leaves crowded, 1/2–1 inch long, 2–4 lines wide, greatly narrowed to the base, and fringed with short, rigid bristles. Peduncles 3–4 inches long, slender. Invol. 3-seriate.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Dry places near the Commandokraal, Zondag river, and on Vanstaadensbergen, Zey.! (Herb. Sd., Hk., D.)

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