''Scaevola collina'', is a species of flowering plant in the family

Goodeniaceae Goodeniaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Asterales. It contains about 404 species in twelve genera. The family is distributed mostly in Australia, except for the genus '' Scaevola'', which is pantropical. Its species are found a ...

. It is a small sub-shrub with blue to purplish flowers. It grows in South Australia.

Description

''Scaevola collina'' is an upright sub-shrub up to high with small glandular hairs on new growth, occasionally smooth. The stems are upright to ascending, needle-shaped, woody, smooth or with short, soft hairs. The leaves sessile, variable from narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic, lance-shaped or oval to egg-shaped, margins smooth or toothed, long, wide, pointed or rounded. The flowers are borne on terminal spikes up to long,

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long, flattened hairs on the outside, bearded on the inside,

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about wide. The bracts are leaf-like, bracteoles narrowly egg-shaped and long. Flowering occurs from April to October and the fruit is cylindrical to oval-shaped, wrinkled, slightly hairy and long.

Taxonomy and naming

''Scaevola collina'' was first formally described in 1957 by E.L.Robertson from an unpublished description by

J.M.Black John McConnell Black (28 April 1855 – 2 December 1951) was a Scottish botanist who emigrated to Australia in 1877 and eventually documented and illustrated thousands of flora in South Australia in the early 20th century. His publications assi ...

and the description was published in ''Flora of South Australia''. The

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(''collina'') means "living on hills".

Distribution and habitat

This scaevola grows in the Musgrave Ranges and Tomkinson Ranges in scrub and woodland on rocky locations.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q17480574 collina Flora of South Australia Asterales of Australia Plants described in 1957