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Scaevola amblyanthera var. centralis Carolin

Reference
Fl.Australia 35:332 (1992)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Spreading shrub, 0.1-0.5 m high. Fl. blue-pink/white, Feb to Oct. Red sand, clay loam. Limestone & granite ridges, stony hills, creek beds.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 20 March 1996

Scientific Description

Stems unribbed. Leaves flat, 15-40 mm long, 8-10 mm wide, Indumentum present, with sparse, glandular hairs; margins toothed. Bracteoles present, 4-5 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs. Pedicel pedicellate, Pedicel length the pedicels 2-2.3 mm long, Indumentum present, Hair type with absent hairs. Calyx lobes present, Calyx length 5-6.5 mm long, hairy, with sparse, glandular hairs. Corolla blue, 10-15 mm long, without auricles, not spurred, hairy on the outside, with sparse, glandular hairs, hairy on the inside; central lobes 3.5-4 mm long, with wings; outer lobes 3.4-5 mm long, wings present on both sides, 0.2-0.6 mm wide. Anthers free. Ovary inferior, not gibbose; style 6-8 mm long, hairy; indusium single, hairy; ovules one or two. Flowers in February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September and October. Occurs in the Pilbara (PIL), Murchison (MUR), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Coolgardie (COO), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Ranges (CR), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Little Sandy Desert(LSD), Dampier land (DL), Ord-Victoria Plains (OVP), Tanami (TAN) 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
Carnarvon, Central Ranges, Coolgardie, Dampierland, Gascoyne, Gibson Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Murchison, Ord Victoria Plain, Pilbara, Tanami.
IBRA Subregions
Augustus, Cape Range, Carnegie, Central, Chichester, Dune Field, Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Murchison, Hamersley, Lateritic Plain, Mackay, Mann-Musgrave Block, McLarty, Pindanland, Purnululu, Roebourne, Rudall, Shield, Tanami Desert.
IMCRA Regions
Pilbara (nearshore).
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Ashburton, Broome, Dundas, East Pilbara, Exmouth, Halls Creek, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Karratha, Laverton, Meekatharra, Ngaanyatjarraku, Port Hedland, Wiluna.