''Scaevola chrysopogon'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a small, understorey shrub with fan-shaped cream or white flowers and is endemic to Western Australia.

Description

''Scaevola chrysopogon'' is a small, understorey shrub up to high, slender, ridged stems, smooth or with scattered, flattened hairs mostly near leaf axils. The lower leaves near the base are egg-shaped, tapering toward the base, toothed, long and wide. The terminal, older leaves narrowly elliptic, smooth margins, sessile and long. The flowers are on spikes up to long,

bract In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves. They may be smaller, larger, or of ...

s similar to older, terminal leaves,

peduncle Peduncle may refer to: *Peduncle (botany), a stalk supporting an inflorescence, which is the part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed *Peduncle (anatomy), a stem, through which a mass of tissue is attached to a body **Peduncle (art ...

less than long. The

corolla Corolla may refer to: *Corolla (botany), the petals of a flower, considered as a unit *Toyota Corolla, an automobile model name * Corolla (headgear), an ancient headdress in the form of a circlet or crown * ''Corolla'' (gastropod), a genus of moll ...

is cream to white, long, covered with fine, flattened or curved hairs on the outside, thickly bearded inside and the wings about wide. Flowering occurs from August to October.

Taxonomy and naming

''Scaevola chrysopogon'' was first formally described in 1990 by Roger Charles Carolin and the description was published in '' Telopea''. The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

(''chrysopogon'') means "golden" and "bearded".

Distribution

This scaevola grows near

Shark Bay Shark Bay (Malgana: ''Gathaagudu'', "two waters") is a World Heritage Site in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. The http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/places/world/shark-bay area is located approximately north of Perth, on the ...

and south to Wannoo in Western Australia.

References

chryspogon Flora of Western Australia {{Asterales-stub