Scaevola parvibarbata
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| Scaevola parvibarbata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Goodeniaceae |
| Genus: | Scaevola |
| Species: | S. parvibarbata |
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| Scaevola parvibarbata | |
Scaevola parvibarbata is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is an upright herb with fan-shaped mauve or greenish flowers and grows in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and the Northern Territory.
Scaevola parvibarbata is an upright herb to 50 cm (20 in) high and covered with simple hairs. The leaves are round to oblong-lance shaped, sessile, 8–40 mm (0.31–1.57 in) long, 4–20 mm (0.16–0.79 in) wide and the margins mostly toothed. The flowers are borne in spikes up to 25 cm (9.8 in) long, bracts small and leaf-like, corolla 11–25 mm (0.43–0.98 in) long, mauve or greenish, thickly bearded with simple hairs on the inside, curled or spreading hairs on the outer surface and the wings up to 1 mm (0.039 in) wide. Flowering occurs mostly from May to October and the fruit is egg-shaped, hairy, 3–5 mm (0.12–0.20 in) long and the surface wrinkled.[2][3]