''Scaevola striata'', commonly known as royal robe, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It has blue fan-shaped flowers, and is endemic to Western Australia.

Description

''Scaevola striata'' is a suckering, spreading, perennial herb, high and wide and hairy stems. The leaves are variable, wedge-shaped or linear to egg-shaped, hairy, long, wide, upper leaves sessile, edges smooth, coarsely toothed toward the apex. The mostly single, fan-shaped flowers are on an axillary stalk, bracts small, lance or oval to oblong shaped, petals about wide with reddish parallel striations and short whitish hairs. Flowering occurs from August to January and the fruit is an oblong or oval shaped

drupe In botany, a drupe (or stone fruit) is an indehiscent fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin, and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a single shell (the ''pit'', ''stone'', or '' pyrena'') of hardened endocarp with a seed (''kernel'') ...

to long.

Taxonomy and naming

''Scaevola striata'' was first formally described 1810 by Robert Brown and the description was published in ''Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805''. 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 ...

("striata") refers to the wings of the corolla.

Distribution and habitat

Royal robe grows on sand plains and ridges in wet areas on the south coast of Western Australia.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q17480664 striata Eudicots of Western Australia Asterales of Australia Plants described in 1810