''Scaevola argentea'', is a low growing, branching shrub in the family
Goodeniaceae.
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Description
''Scaevola argentea'', is a prostrate, branching shrub which grows to a height of to 15 cm. It is silvery and hairy. The leaves are sessile
Sessility, or sessile, may refer to:
* Sessility (motility), organisms which are not able to move about
* Sessility (botany), flowers or leaves that grow directly from the stem or peduncle of a plant
* Sessility (medicine), tumors and polyps that ...
, elliptic to obovate, sometimes dentate, sometimes entire
Entire may refer to:
* Entire function, a function that is holomorphic on the whole complex plane
* Entire (animal), an indication that an animal is not neutered
* Entire (botany)
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. The leaf blade is about 8–20 mm long and 3–13 mm wide. The flowers occur in dense spikes or spike-like thyrses
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and have elliptical bracts which are 5–10 mm long and entire. The bracteoles are 3–4 mm long and narrowly elliptic. The sepals are free. The corolla is 8–13 mm long, and has silvery hairs on the outside, is bearded inside, and is mauve to blue. The ovary is 2- locular. The indusium
A sorus (pl. sori) is a cluster of sporangia (structures producing and containing spores) in ferns and fungi. A coenosorus (plural coenosori) is a compound sorus composed of multiple, fused sori.
Etymology
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(cup enclosing the stigma) is 1 mm long and has a stiff purplish beard with and without bristles on the lips. The fruit is about 2 mm long, ellipsoidal, sometimes ribbed, otherwise smooth, sometimes pubescent The adjective pubescent may describe:
* people or animals undergoing puberty
* plants that are hairy, covered in trichomes
* insects that are covered in setae
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Distribution & habitat
''Scaevola argentea'' is endemic to Western Australia
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and found between Ravensthorpe Ravensthorpe may refer to any of the following places.
England
*Ravensthorpe, Dewsbury in West Yorkshire
**Ravensthorpe railway station, Dewsbury
*Ravensthorpe, Northamptonshire
*Ravensthorpe, Peterborough in Cambridgeshire
*Ravensthorpe, an histor ...
and Ongerup. It grows in sandy heaths.[
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Etymology
The specific epithet, ''argentea'', is derived from the Latin, ''argenteus,-a,-um'' , which means ''silver'', ''silvery'', ''silvery-white''.[
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References
External links
''Scaevola argentea'': Occurrence data from the Australasian Virtual Herbarium
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argentea
Eudicots of Western Australia
Asterales of Australia
Plants described in 1992
Taxa named by Roger Charles Carolin