''Scaevola collaris'' is a shrub in the family
Goodeniaceae[ and its native range is five mainland states/territories of Australia: the Northern Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland and Western Australia.][
It is an endangered species in New South Wales.][
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Description
''Scaevola collaris'' is an erect shrub, growing to 0.5 m.[ The stems are erect and smooth.][ The leaves are sessile (i.e., have no stalk), succulent and smooth, and 1-8.5 cm long by 1–9 mm wide.][
The flowers occur in terminal spikes or are solitary or clustered in the axils.][
The sepals are ovate to triangular, smooth and almost free.][ The corolla is 6-17mm long, smooth on the outside with short hairs on the inside, and yellow to cream or mauve.][ The anthers are free.][
The ovary is inferior][ and from 5–20 mm long, is two-celled and usually has a beak and a foot.][
It flowers mostly from May to November.]
Distribution
It is found on saline soils in the arid parts of the south of Western Australia, the south of the Northern Territory, South Australia, western Queensland and north-western New South Wales.[
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Naming
It was first described in 1859 by Ferdinand von Mueller
Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (german: Müller; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Vict ...
,[ and 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 ...
, ''collaris'', comes from the Latin, ''collaris'' (having a collar).[ It was transferred to the genus, '' Goodenia,'' in 2020 by ]Kelly Anne Shepherd
Kelly Anne Shepherd (born 1970) is an Australian botanist, who has published some 91 names.
Career
Shepherd earned a B.Sc. (Hon) in 1992 with a thesis entitled "Faecal Analysis of Mammalian Herbivores in the Perup Forest, Western Australia." ...
and others.
Gallery
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References
External links
''Scaevola collaris'' (Flickr search)
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collaris
Plants described in 1859
Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller