Scaevola argentea
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Goodeniaceae |
| Genus: | Scaevola |
| Species: | S. argentea
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| Occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium | |
Scaevola argentea, is a low growing, branching shrub in the family Goodeniaceae.[3]
Description
[edit | edit source]Scaevola argentea, is a prostrate, branching shrub which grows to a height of to 15 cm. It is silvery and hairy. The leaves are sessile, elliptic to obovate, sometimes dentate, sometimes entire. The leaf blade is about 8–20 mm long and 3–13 mm wide. The flowers occur in dense spikes or spike-like thyrses and have elliptical bracts which are 5–10 mm long and entire. The bracteoles are 3–4 mm long and narrowly elliptic. The sepals are free. The corolla is 8–13 mm long, and has silvery hairs on the outside, is bearded inside, and is mauve to blue. The ovary is 2-locular. The indusium (cup enclosing the stigma) is 1 mm long and has a stiff purplish beard with and without bristles on the lips. The fruit is about 2 mm long, ellipsoidal, sometimes ribbed, otherwise smooth, sometimes pubescent.[3]
It has no synonyms.[4]
Distribution & habitat
[edit | edit source]Scaevola argentea is endemic to Western Australia and found between Ravensthorpe and Ongerup. It grows in sandy heaths.[3] [5]
Etymology
[edit | edit source]The specific epithet, argentea, is derived from the Latin, argenteus,-a,-um, which means silver, silvery, silvery-white.[6]
References
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- ^ Carolin, R.C. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1992) Scaevola. Flora of Australia 35: 333.
- ^ a b c Carolin, R.C. (2017) Flora of Australia: Scaevola argentea Carolin. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
- ^ Govaerts, R. et.al. (2019) Plants of the world online: Scaevola argentea. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
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- ^ PlantIllustrations.org: Scaevola argentea Carolin Retrieved 12 May 2019.
External links
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