Felicia bellidioides

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Felicia bellidioides
Felicia bellidioides subsp. bellidioides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Felicia
Section: Felicia sect. Neodetris
Species:
F. bellidioides
Binomial name
Felicia bellidioides
Schltr.[1]
Subspecies
  • subsp. bellidioides
  • subsp. foliosa Grau

Felicia bellidioides is a perennial plant of up to about 25 cm (10 in) high, that is assigned to the family Asteraceae. Most of the narrowly inverted egg-shaped leaves are silky hairy and in a basal rosette with no or few very narrow bracts on the stalk in the subspecies bellidioides. In the subspecies foliosa, the narrower leaves are not silky hairy but variously bristly and glandular, with more and larger bracts on the inflorescence stalk. The flowerheads sit individually on top of a long peduncle and consist of an involucre with only two worls of bracts, about twenty purplish blue ray florets, surrounding many yellow disc florets. It occurs in the Western Cape province of South Africa.[2]

Description

Felicia bellidioides subsp. bellidioides is a perennial, upwardly growing plant of up to 25 cm (10 in) high, sometimes with runners. Its leaves are

inverted egg-shaped to narrowly inverted egg-shaped, sometimes with an indistinct stalk, either broader and shorter, 1–3 cm (2⁄5–1+1⁄5 in) long and 2–8 mm (0.079–0.315 in) wide, and then usually white silky hairy, or 2½–3 cm (1.0–1.2 in) long and 3–6 mm (0.12–0.24 in) wide and distinctly hairy, or longer, 2–4 cm (4⁄5–1+3⁄5 in) long and 1½–5 mm (0.06–0.2 in) wide and usually short bristly and glandular hairs. In all forms the leaf margins rarely carry a few teeth.[2]

Flowers and seeds

The flower heads are individually set on top of an up to 13 cm (5 in) long

cypselae are inverted egg-shaped, about 2½ mm (0.1 in) long and 1.1 mm (0.043 in) wide, set with fine scales and with up to 0.1 mm (0.0039 in) long hair, and are edged with an mostly brighter coloured ridge around the outline.[2]

Subspecies

Felicia bellidioides subsp. foliata differs from the typical subspecies by having bracts higher up the peduncles, clearly stalked, longer and narrower leaves of 1–6 cm long and 3⁄4–41⁄2 mm wide, without the silky hairs.[2]

Taxonomy

Revision of the genus Felicia (Asteraceae) distinguished a form with bracts higher up the peduncle, stalked, longer and narrower leaves without the silky hair characteristic of the typical form. He named it Felicia bellidioides subsp. foliata, the type of which has been collected by Barker on the Voetpadsberg between Worcester and Laingsburg in 1951. The species is considered to be part of the section Neodetris.[2] The species name bellidioides has been compounded from the Latin bellis referring to the genus Bellis, and the Greek suffix -oides, which means "in the form of".[3]

Distribution, habitat and ecology

Felicia bellidioides subsp. bellidioides is known from the

Montagu, and the Swartberg Pass. The species is restricted to altitudes of 1,000–2,000 m (3,300–6,600 ft), where it often grows in cracks in the rocks.[2]

Conservation

Both subspecies of Felicia bellidioides have a stable population and their continued survival is considered to be of least concern.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ "Felicia bellidioides Schltr". The Plant List.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Grau, J. (1973). "Revision der Gattung Felicia (Asteraceae)". Mitteilungen der Botanischer Staatssammlung München. IX: 540–543. Retrieved 2017-11-12.
  3. ^ "Felicia bellidioides". CasaBio.
  4. ^ "Felicia bellidioides subsp. bellidioides". SANBI Red List of South African Plants.
  5. ^ "Felicia bellidioides subsp. foliata". SANBI Red List of South African Plants.

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