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Scaevola densifolia Carolin

Reference
Telopea 3: 505-506 (1990)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Prostrate perennial, herb or shrub. Fl. white-cream, Oct to Dec or Mar. Sand, sand clay. Near rivers.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 20 March 1996

Scientific Description

Stems unribbed. Leaves flat, 10(-40) mm long, 2(-9) mm wide, Indumentum present, with dense, absent hairs; margins entire or toothed. Bracteoles present, 2.5(-5.5) mm long, hairy, with simple hairs. Pedicel pedicellate, Pedicel length the pedicels 0.8 mm long, Indumentum present, Hair type with simple hairs. Calyx lobes present, Calyx length 1.8-2 mm long, hairy, with dense, simple hairs. Corolla white, 14(-17) mm long, rarely without auricles, not spurred, hairy on the outside, with dense, simple hairs, hairy on the inside, 0.5-0.6 mm wide. Anthers free. Ovary inferior, not gibbose; style 6.5(-8) mm long, hairy; indusium single, hairy; ovules one or two. Flowers in October, November and December. Occurs in the Mallee (MAL) and Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA Region(s), of the South West (SW) Botanical Province.

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Recherche, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Esperance, Jerramungup, Ravensthorpe.