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Scaevola browniana Carolin subsp. browniana

Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect shrub, 0.3-1 m high. Fl. blue-white, Jan to Oct. Sandy, often rocky soils, laterite. Sandstone rocks & hills.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 20 March 1996

Scientific Description

Stems unribbed. Leaves flat, 10-25 mm long, 4-8 mm wide, Indumentum present, with dense, simple hairs; margins entire. Bracteoles present, 3-8 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs. Pedicel absent (flowers sessile). Calyx lobes present, Calyx length 0-0.4 mm long, hairy, with dense, dendritic hairs. Corolla white, 7-8 mm long, without auricles, not spurred, hairy on the outside, with dense, dendritic hairs, hairy on the inside, 0.1-0.2 mm wide. Anthers free. Ovary inferior, not gibbose; style 4-5.5 mm long, glabrous; indusium single, hairy; ovules one or two. Flowers in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December. Occurs in the Pilbara (PIL), Gascoyne (GAS), Little Sandy Desert(LSD), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Northern Kimberly (NK) and Central Kimberly (CK) IBRA Region(s), of the Northern (N) and Eremaean (E) Botanical Province.

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Central Kimberley, Gascoyne, Great Sandy Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Northern Kimberley, Ord Victoria Plain, Pilbara, Tanami, Victoria Bonaparte.
IBRA Subregions
Carnegie, Chichester, Hamersley, Hart, Keep, McLarty, Mitchell, Mount Eliza, Pentecost, Purnululu, South Kimberley Interzone, Tanami Desert, Trainor.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Ashburton, Derby-West Kimberley, East Pilbara, Halls Creek, Meekatharra, Port Hedland, Wiluna, Wyndham-East Kimberley.