Felicia erigeroides explained

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]

Notes and References

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