''Scaevola glutinosa'' 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, spreading shrub with fan-shaped blue flowers, toothed, oval-shaped leaves and grows in Queensland.

Description

''Scaevola glutinosa'' is a small, spreading sub-shrub to high, sticky stems, soft simple hairs, toothed oval-shaped leaves,

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 ...

, sometimes almost stem-clasping, long and wide. The blue flowers are in spikes up to long, bracts elliptic to egg-shaped,

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 ...

long, hairy on the outer surface, bearded on the inside and the

wings A wing is a type of fin that produces lift while moving through air or some other fluid. Accordingly, wings have streamlined cross-sections that are subject to aerodynamic forces and act as airfoils. A wing's aerodynamic efficiency is exp ...

up to wide. Flowering occurs from February to September and the fruit is cylinder-shaped, long, wrinkled and covered in soft hairs.

Taxonomy and naming

''Scaevola glutinosa'' was first formally described in 1990 by

Roger Charles Carolin Roger Charles Carolin (born 1929) is a botanist, pteridologist and formerly an associate professor at Sydney University. He was appointed as a lecturer in botany at the University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sy ...

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 ...

(''glutinosa'') means "sticky".

Distribution and habitat

This scaevola grows mostly on limestone in

Mt Isa Mount Isa ( ) is a city in the Gulf Country region of Queensland, Australia. It came into existence because of the vast mineral deposits found in the area. Mount Isa Mines (MIM) is one of the most productive single mines in world history, bas ...

at higher altitudes and the Great Dividing Range.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q63873487 glutinosa Flora of Queensland