Scaevola macrophylla | |
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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. macrophylla
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Binomial name | |
Scaevola macrophylla |
Scaevola macrophylla, commonly known as large-flowered scaevola, [1] is an erect herb (woody at base) growing to 0.4 m high, with blue flowers, in the family Goodeniaceae, native to Western Australia. [4]
The species was first formally described in 1854 by Willem Hendrik de Vriese [5] [6] and in 1868 George Bentham in the fourth volume of Flora Australiensis assigned it to the genus, Scaevola. [2] [3]
It occurs in the Cape Riche area in south-western Western Australia. [7] The species is described as "extremely rare", being documented on only four occasions, a discovery after a controlled burn in 2021 was its first record since 1990. [8]
It has been declared to be a threatened species, [4] and critically endangered under the EPBC Act. [1]