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Scaevola acacioides Carolin

Reference
Telopea 3: 491-492 (1990)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, spreading shrub, 0.6-2 m high, with long, narrow leaves. Fl. cream-yellow, Mar or May or Aug. Skeletal red gravelly sandy soils over ironstone. Stripped undulating uplands.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 8 February 2000
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Scientific Description

Stems unribbed. Leaves flat, 25-60 mm long, 2-7 mm wide, Indumentum absent (leaves glabrous); margins entire. Bracteoles present, 1-1.5 mm long, glabrous. Pedicel pedicellate, Pedicel length the pedicels 8-16 mm long, glabrous. Calyx lobes present, Calyx length 0-1 mm long, glabrous. Corolla white, 15-22 mm long, without auricles, not spurred, hairy or glabrous on the outside, with sparse, stellate hairs, hairy on the inside, 0.3-1 mm wide. Anthers free. Ovary inferior, not gibbose; style 11-12 mm long, hairy; indusium single, hairy; ovules one or two. Flowers in March, April, May and August. Occurs in the Pilbara (PIL), Carnarvon (CAR) and Gascoyne (GAS) IBRA Region(s), of the Eremaean (E) Botanical Province.

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 2 August 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Carnarvon, Gascoyne, Pilbara.
IBRA Subregions
Ashburton, Augustus, Cape Range, Chichester, Hamersley, Roebourne, Wooramel.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Ashburton, Carnarvon, East Pilbara, Karratha, Meekatharra.