Scaevola pauciflora Leenh.

Species

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Characteristics

Small shrub, c. 40 cm, candelabrum-like branched, glabrous except for hair tufts in the leaf axils. Leaves tufted at the twig ends, indistinctly petioled, spathulate, obtuse, 2½-4½ by 0.5-0.75 cm, stiff-coriaceous; margin revolute, entire; nerves and veins indistinct. Flowers solitary, sessile on top of a c. 1.5 cm long peduncle. Bracteoles spathulate, 13 by 2 mm. Calyx with a 0.5 mm high free margin, indistinctly lobed. Corolla 1.5 cm long, yellow-white, inside the tube densely long-hairy, margins of the lobes fimbriate at the base. Style glabrous, the margin of the cupular indusium excepted.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
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Environment

Open mountain slope with low shrubs, c. 3000 m. Fl.--10.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Scaevola pauciflora world distribution map, present in Malaysia and Papua New Guinea

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:384287-1
WFO ID wfo-0000497387
COL ID 79SK5
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Synonyms

Scaevola pauciflora