Scaevola anchusifolia
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| Silky scaevola | |
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| Scaevola anchusifolia in Kings Park | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Goodeniaceae |
| Genus: | Scaevola |
| Species: | S. anchusifolia |
| Binomial name | |
| Scaevola anchusifolia | |
Scaevola anchusifolia commonly known as silky scaevola,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a small, upright or decumbent shrub with fan-shaped blue to bluish white flowers and is endemic to Western Australia.
Scaevola anchusifolia is a decumbent or upright shrub to 1.4 m (4 ft 7 in) high and stems with rough, longish hairs. The leaves are oblong-lance shaped, taper toward the base, margins smooth or toothed, 9 cm (3.5 in) long and up to 1.8 cm (0.71 in) wide. The flowers are borne on terminal spikes up to 15 cm (5.9 in) long. The bracts are narrowly elliptic to linear shaped, 8–76 mm (0.31–2.99 in) long and gradually taper to a point. The corolla is 10–22 mm (0.39–0.87 in) long, light blue to bluish white, hairy on the outside, bearded inside and the wings about 1 mm (0.039 in) wide. Flowering occurs from July to November and the fruit is a rounded, flattened shape, wrinkled, smooth and with two sterile cavities.[2][3]