Biology:Scaevola brookeana

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Short description: Species of shrub

Scaevola brookeana
Scaevola brookeana.jpg
In the Australian National Botanic Gardens
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Goodeniaceae
Genus: Scaevola
Species:
S. brookeana
Binomial name
Scaevola brookeana
F.Muell. (1884)
Scaevola brookeana DistMap12.png
Occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium

Scaevola brookeana, or heart-leaved fan-flower, is a shrub in the family Goodeniaceae, native to Western Australia.[1][2] It grows to between 0.2 and 0.7 metres high and produces white or blue flowers from August to December in its native range.[2] The species was formally described by Victorian Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in the tenth volume of Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae based on plant material collected by Sarah Brooks, after whom it is named.[3]

References

  1. "Scaevola brookeana". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?taxon_id=120117. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Scaevola brookeana". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife. https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/7600. 
  3. Von Mueller, Ferdinand and Home, Roderick Weir (Ed) (2006). Regardfully yours: Selected Correspondence of Ferdinand Von Mueller Vol. 3. Peter Lang. pp. 783. ISBN 3906757102. 

Wikidata ☰ Q50804617 entry