Scaevola Humilus
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Internal links: Angiosperms > Eudicots > Superastrids > Campanulids > Asterales > Goodeniaceae > Scaevola Humilus
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Wikipedia links: Angiosperms > Eudicots > Asterids > Asterales > Goodeniaceae > Scaevola humilus
Other links: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/cgi-bin/speciesfacts_display.cgi?form=speciesfacts&name=Scaevola_humilis
Common name: Sandplain fanflower
Conservation status: unkown
Etymology:
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Flowers:
Flowers sessile in terminal leafy spikes
Bracts lanceolate, acute to acuminate, 9-20 mm long, mostly entire
Bracteoles narrow-lanceolate, 5-7 mm long, pubescent
Sepals broadly deltoid, to 0.5 mm long, pubescent, connate at the base; corolla blue, 10-15 mm long, densely pubescent outside, bearded inside the throat; lobes narrowly oblong, 5-8 mm long, with broad subentire wings
Style 5-7 mm long, glabrous
Indusium depressed-obovate, to 1 mm long, c. 2 mm wide, with a posterior tuft of purplish bristles and long white bristles around the orifice
Ovary 1.5-2 mm long, completely 2-celled, puberulent
Flowering time is August to October
Fruit:
Ovoid, 3-4 mm long
2-celled
Leaves:
Sessile, obovate to elliptic, somewhat attenuate at the base, obtuse to acute
l-4 cm long, 3-15 mm wide
Coarsely dentate to entire, pubescent with short antrorse hairs
Stem & branches:
Terete, green, finely pubescent, ascending, sometimes slightly woody at the base
Roots:
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Habit:
Perennial herb to 50 cm high
Habitat:
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Distribution:
Native to Australia
S.Aust.: FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP
Species:
World: S, G
Australia: S, G
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