Scaevola glutinosa
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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. glutinosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Scaevola glutinosa | |
Scaevola glutinosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a small, spreading shrub with fan-shaped blue flowers, toothed, oval-shaped leaves and grows in Queensland.
Description[edit]
Scaevola glutinosa is a small, spreading sub-shrub to 70 cm (28 in) high, sticky stems, soft simple hairs, toothed oval-shaped leaves, sessile, sometimes almost stem-clasping, 21–68 mm (0.83–2.68 in) long and 6–26 mm (0.24–1.02 in) wide. The blue flowers are in spikes up to 12 cm (4.7 in) long, bracts elliptic to egg-shaped, corolla 14–24 mm (0.55–0.94 in) long, hairy on the outer surface, bearded on the inside and the wings up to 10 mm (0.39 in) wide. Flowering occurs from February to September and the fruit is cylinder-shaped, 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) long, wrinkled and covered in soft hairs.[2][3]
Taxonomy and naming[edit]
Scaevola glutinosa was first formally described in 1990 by Roger Charles Carolin and the description was published in Telopea.[3][4] The specific epithet (glutinosa) means "sticky".[5]
Distribution and habitat[edit]
This scaevola grows mostly on limestone in Mt Isa at higher altitudes and the Great Dividing Range.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ "Scaevola glutinosa". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
- ^ a b Carolin, R.C (1990). Flora of Australia 35 (PDF). Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia. p. 124. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
- ^ a b Carolin, R.C (1990). "Scaevola glutinosa". Telopea. 3 (4): 504. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- ^ "Scaevola glutinosa". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- ^ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 208. ISBN 9780958034180.