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Scaevola eneabba Carolin

Reference
Telopea 3:500-501 (1990)
Conservation Code
Priority Two
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Spreading shrub, to 0.6 m high. Fl. white-pink, Feb.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 20 March 1996
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Scientific Description

Stems unribbed. Leaves flat, 8-30 mm long, 1.5-3 mm wide, Indumentum present, with sparse, simple hairs; margins entire. Bracteoles absent. Pedicel absent (flowers sessile). Calyx lobes present, Calyx length 7.5-8 mm long, hairy, with dense, simple hairs. Corolla white, 13-14 mm long, without auricles, not spurred, hairy on the outside, with sparse, simple hairs, hairy on the inside, 0.4-0.7 mm wide. Anthers free. Ovary inferior, not gibbose; style 6.5-11 mm long, hairy; indusium single, hairy; ovules one or two. Flowers in February. Occurs in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS) IBRA Region(s), of the South West (SW) Botanical Province. Conservation Code: Conservation code Priority Two (P2).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Geraldton Sandplains.
IBRA Subregions
Lesueur Sandplain.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Carnamah, Coorow.