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Scaevola anchusifolia
Scaevola anchusifolia commonly known as silky scaevola, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a small, upright or decumbent shrub with fan-shaped blue to bluish white flowers and is endemic to Western Australia.
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Description
Scaevola anchusifolia is a decumbent or upright shrub to 1.4 m (4 ft 7 in) high and stems with rough, longish hairs. The leaves are oblong-lance shaped, taper toward the base, margins smooth or toothed, 9 cm (3.5 in) long and up to 1.8 cm (0.71 in) wide. The flowers are borne on terminal spikes up to 15 cm (5.9 in) long. The bracts are narrowly elliptic to linear shaped, 8–76 mm (0.31–2.99 in) long and gradually taper to a point. The corolla is 10–22 mm (0.39–0.87 in) long, light blue to bluish white, hairy on the outside, bearded inside and the wings about 1 mm (0.039 in) wide. Flowering occurs from July to November and the fruit is a rounded, flattened shape, wrinkled, smooth and with two sterile cavities.
Range & habitat
Silky scaevola grows from the Murchison River to Yalgorup National Park on coastal plains, limestone ridges and sand dunes.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 903525.