Scaevola gracilis
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| Scaevola gracilis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Goodeniaceae |
| Genus: | Scaevola |
| Species: | S. gracilis |
| Binomial name | |
| Scaevola gracilis | |
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Scaevola gracilis is a plant in the family Goodeniaceae,[2] native to the Kermadec Islands and Tonga.[4][5]
It was first described in 1856 by Joseph Dalton Hooker.[2][3] In 1998, William Russell Sykes united the Tongan Scaevola porrecta with the Kermadec Islands S. gracilis.[5] The specific epithet, gracilis, is a Latin adjective meaning "slender".[6]