Scaevola chrysopogon
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Goodeniaceae |
| Genus: | Scaevola |
| Species: | S. chrysopogon
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Scaevola chrysopogon is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a small, understorey shrub with fan-shaped cream or white flowers and is endemic to Western Australia.
Description
[edit]Scaevola chrysopogon is a small, understorey shrub up to 60 cm (24 in) high, slender, ridged stems, smooth or with scattered, flattened hairs mostly near leaf axils. The lower leaves near the base are egg-shaped, tapering toward the base, toothed, 1–4 cm (0.39–1.57 in) long and 3–10 mm (0.12–0.39 in) wide. The terminal, older leaves narrowly elliptic, smooth margins, sessile and 2.5–10 mm (0.098–0.394 in) long. The flowers are on spikes up to 25 cm (9.8 in) long, bracts similar to older, terminal leaves, peduncle less than 2 mm (0.079 in) long. The corolla is cream to white, 13–23 mm (0.51–0.91 in) long, covered with fine, flattened or curved hairs on the outside, thickly bearded inside and the wings about 1 mm (0.039 in) wide. Flowering occurs from August to October.[2][3][4]
Taxonomy and naming
[edit]Scaevola chrysopogon was first formally described in 1990 by Roger Charles Carolin and the description was published in Telopea.[3][5] The specific epithet (chrysopogon) means "golden" and "bearded".[6]
Distribution
[edit]This scaevola grows near Shark Bay and south to Wannoo in Western Australia.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Scaevola chrysopogon". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
- ^ a b Carolin, Roger. "Scaevola chrysopogon". Flora of Australia. ABRS-Commonwealth of Australia. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
- ^ a b Carolin, Roger (1990). "Scaevola chrysopogon". Telopea. 3 (4): 143. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
- ^ Carolin, Roger (1990). Flora of Australian Volume 35 (PDF). Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study. p. 143. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
- ^ "Scaevola chrysopogon". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
- ^ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2021). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (4th ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 166. ISBN 9780958034180.
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