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Scaevola basedowii, commonly known as Basedow's fanflower and as akwen-akwene or kwenpaye in the Kaytetye language, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to inland areas of Australia. It is a stiff, erect perennial herb with many stems, sessile, narrowly elliptic leaves at the base of the plant and more or less triangular stem leaves, pale mauve or white flowers with darker lines, and ribbed, hairy, spherical to elliptic fruit.
This species of Scaevola occurs in central Australia in Western Australia, the Northern Territory and South Australia. In Western Australia it is found in the Central Ranges, Gibson Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Little Sandy Desert, and Murchison bioregions. It occurs in the Burt Plain, Central Ranges, Finke, Gibson Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Great Victoria Desert, MacDonnell Ranges, and Tanami bioregions of the Northern Territory, and in the Central Ranges and Great Victoria Desert in South Australia. It grows on red sand dunes or desert flats, often with Triodia basedowii and Allocasuarina decaisneana.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Scaevola basedowii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
