Royal robe | |
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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. striata
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Binomial name | |
Scaevola striata |
Scaevola striata, commonly known as royal robe, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It has blue fan-shaped flowers, and is endemic to Western Australia.
Scaevola striata is a suckering, spreading, perennial herb, 0.35–0.3 m (1 ft 2 in – 1 ft 0 in) high and 1 m (3 ft 3 in) wide and hairy stems. The leaves are variable, wedge-shaped or linear to egg-shaped, hairy, 1.5–5 cm (0.59–1.97 in) long, 3–20 mm (0.12–0.79 in) wide, upper leaves sessile, edges smooth, coarsely toothed toward the apex. The mostly single, fan-shaped flowers are on an axillary stalk, bracts small, lance or oval to oblong shaped, petals about 3 cm (1.2 in) wide with reddish parallel striations and short whitish hairs. Flowering occurs from August to January and the fruit is an oblong or oval shaped drupe to 5 mm (0.20 in) long. [3] [4] [5]
Scaevola striata was first formally described 1810 by Robert Brown and the description was published in Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805. [6] [7] The specific epithet ("striata") refers to the wings of the corolla. [8]
Royal robe grows on sand plains and ridges in wet areas on the south coast of Western Australia. [2]