Felicia erigeroides
| Felicia erigeroides | |
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| Near Johannesburg | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Felicia |
| Section: | Felicia sect. Felicia |
| Species: | F. erigeroides
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| Binomial name | |
| Felicia erigeroides | |
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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 in Eastern Cape Province to KwaZulu-Natal.[2]
Felicia erigeroides was first described in 1836 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle.[3] Harvey reclassified it as Aster erigoides,[4] but this was an illegitimate name.[5]
References
- ^ "Felicia erigeroides DC". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 14 October 2025.
- ^ "Felicia erigeroides | PlantZAfrica".
- ^ de Candolle, Augustin Pyramus (1836). Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis. Vol. 5. Paris: Sumptibus Sociorum Treuttel et Würtz. p. 219.
- ^ Flora capensis :being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape colony, Caffraria, & Port Natal (And neighbouring territories). Vol. 3. 1864.
- ^ "Aster erigeroides (DC.) Harv. — the Plant List".