Felicia mossamedensis (Hiern) Mendonça

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Felicia mossamedensis

Photo: Bart Wursten
By the lodges, Lake Kyle Recreational Park

Felicia mossamedensis

Photo: Bart Wursten
By the lodges, Lake Kyle Recreational Park

Felicia mossamedensis

Photo: Bart Wursten
By the lodges, Lake Kyle Recreational Park

Felicia mossamedensis

Photo: Bart Wursten
By the lodges, Lake Kyle Recreational Park

Felicia mossamedensis

Photo: Bart Wursten
By the lodges, Lake Kyle Recreational Park

Felicia mossamedensis

Photo: Bart Wursten
Base of Nyahokwe Hill, Nyanga

Felicia mossamedensis

Photo: Bart Wursten
By Masvingo - Zvishavane road just before Mashava

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Synonyms: Aster luteus (N.E. Br.) Hutch.
Detris mossamedensis Hiern
Felicia lutea N.E. Br.
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Frequency:
Status: Native
Description:
Much-branched erect annual or perennial herb, up to 30 cm tall. Leaves alternate, sessile, up to 35 × 6 mm, densely covered with short appressed bristles or glandular. Capitula solitary at the ends of branches on peduncles up to 8 cm long, covered with rough stalked glands near the base. Involucral bracts greenish, outer shortest, with roughish glands; inner up to 5.5 mm long. Ray-florets numerous, yellow, 7 × 1.2 mm. Disk-florets numerous, yellow.
Notes:
Derivation of specific name: mossamedensis: of Moçâmedes District in Angola, where the type specimen was found.
Habitat: In grassland, scrub and along roadsides.
Altitude range: (metres) Up to 1900 m
Flowering time:Oct - Apr
Worldwide distribution: Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, and South Africa as far as KwaZulu-Natal.
Zimbabwe distribution: W,C,E,S
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Endemic status:
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Images last updated: Friday 23 March 2012
Literature:

Bandeira, S., Bolnick, D. & Barbosa, F. (2007). Wild Flowers of Southern Mozambique Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique Page 205. (Includes a picture).

Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 17.

Grau, J. & Lippert, W. (1980). The Compositae of the Flora Zambesiaca area, 11. Astereae (continued). Kirkia 12(1) Page 6.

Kirby, G. (2013). Wild Flowers of Southeast Botswana Struik Nature, Cape Town South Africa Page 134. (Includes a picture).

Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 25.

Pooley, E. (1998). A Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Region. Natal Flora Publications Trust. Durban. Pages 310 - 311. (Includes a picture).

Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 33.


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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Felicia mossamedensis
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Felicia mossamedensis
Plants of the World Online: Felicia mossamedensis
Tropicos: Felicia mossamedensis
Wikipedia: Felicia mossamedensis


Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Species information: Felicia mossamedensis.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=158810, retrieved 29 March 2024

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