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Scaevola gracilis Hook.f.

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Scaevola gracilis Hook.f., J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 1: 129 (1856)
Scaevola gracilis Hook.f.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
Hooker, J.D. 1856: On the Botany of Raoul Island, one of the Kermadec group in the South Pacific Ocean. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society. Botany. 1(3): 125–129.
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129
Scævola gracilis
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Scaevola gracilis Hook.f.
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Scaevola gracilis

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Goodeniaceae
Scaevola
gracilis

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Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Scaevola gracilis Hook.f.

Procumbent to ascending subshrub up to c. 1 m. tall; branches spreading, clad in long silky hairs; branchlets slightly zigzag, hairs long, ± appressed. Lvs on pilose flattened petioles up to c. 2 cm. long, axils villous. Lamina silky-hairy, somewhat obliquely lanceolate-oblong to obovate and cuneately narrowed to base; 2-4-(8) × 1-2-(3) cm. long, acute, serrate-dentate on upper part of margins. Fls c. 2 cm. long, fragrant, us. solitary, subsessile. Calyx cupular, indistinctly lobed. Corolla white with yellow throat; tube short, villous; lobes narrow-oblong, mucronate. Stamens < tube; style pilose; pollen-cup with fimbriate margins. Drupe ovoid to subglobose, white, 10-10·5 × 8-10·5 mm.; seeds compressed, c. 3 mm. long.
Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Scaevola gracilis Hook.f.

2n = 48

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Scaevola gracilis Hook.f.
Scaevola gracilis Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Scaevola gracilis Hook.f.
Scaevola gracilis Hook.f.
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Scaevola L.
Scaevola gracilis Hook.f.
Scaevola gracilis Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A. et al. (2004)
Scaevola gracilis Hook.f.
Scaevola gracilis Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A. et al. (2009)
Scaevola gracilis Hook.f.
Scaevola gracilis Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Scaevola gracilis Hook.f.
Scaevola gracilis Hook.f.
Scaevola gracilis Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Scaevola gracilis Hook.f.

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Scaevola gracilis Hook.f.
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1 January 2000
22 March 2004
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