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Internal ID UUID6440043e19524797217712
Scientific name Scaevola anchusifolia
Authority Benth.
First published in Enum. Pl. Hügel : 68 (1837)

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Scaevola anchusifolia, also known as silky scaevola, is a flowering plant in the Goodeniaceae family. It is a small shrub with blue to bluish white fan-shaped flowers and is found only in Western Australia. The plant has rough, hairy stems and oblong-lance shaped leaves. Its flowers grow on spikes and have narrow bracts and a light blue to bluish white corolla. Flowering occurs from July to November and the fruit is rounded and flattened. This plant was first described in 1837 by George Bentham and is found in coastal plains, limestone ridges, and sand dunes in Western Australia.

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Lobelia anchusifolia Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 378. 1891 [5 Nov 1891]
Lobelia holosericea Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 378. 1891 [5 Nov 1891]
Merkusia anchusifolia de Vriese Ned. Kruidk. Arch. 2(1): 165 (1851)
Scaevola sphaerocarpa de Vriese Pl. Preiss. 1: 409 (1845)
Scaevola holosericea de Vriese Pl. Preiss. 1: 408 (1845)
Merkusia anchusifolia var. holosericea de Vriese Ned. Kruidk. Arch. 2(1): 165 (1851)
Merkusia anchusifolia var. sphaerocarpa de Vriese Ned. Kruidk. Arch. 2(1): 165 (1851)

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World Flora Online wfo-0000497626
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:384144-1
Open Tree Of Life 316883
NCBI Taxonomy 197947
IPNI 384144-1
iNaturalist 903525
GBIF 5569328
Wikipedia Scaevola_anchusifolia

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Characterizing Floral Symmetry in the Core Goodeniaceae with Geometric Morphometrics Gardner AG, Fitz Gerald JN, Menz J, Shepherd KA, Howarth DG, Jabaily RS PLoS One 05-May-2016
PMCID:PMC4858217
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0154736
PMID:27148960

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