Scaevola oldfieldii F.Muell.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Goodeniaceae > Scaevola

Characteristics

Erect shrub, to 60 cm tall, glabrous or glandular. Leaves sessile, entire, elliptic; lamina 3–12 cm long, 3–25 mm wide; axillary hairs ± inconspicuous. Flowers in axillary spikes to 30 mm long; bracts leaf-like but smaller; bracteoles lanceolate, to 8 mm long. Sepals rim-like, undulate, to 1 mm long. Corolla 10–20 mm long, with ± appressed, whitish hairs outside, hairy inside on lobes and throat, white; barbulae fimbriate apically; wings 1–2 mm wide. Ovary glabrous, 1-locular except basally; indusium depressed-ovate, 2–3 mm wide, basal hairs long, loose. Fruit ellipsoidal, 3–4 mm long, tuberculate, glabrous.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.6
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Environment

Occurs in loam and clay and occasionally in sandy soil.
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Distribution

Scaevola oldfieldii world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:384274-1
WFO ID wfo-0000497401
COL ID 6Y4JN
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Synonyms

Lobelia oldfieldii Scaevola oldfieldii