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Rough Fan Flower

Scaevola linearis

Rough Fan Flower
Photo: Tim Hammer, CC BY 4.0
Family
Goodeniaceae (Goodeni family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SE. South Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Scaevola linearis, commonly known as rough fanflower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is an erect to prostrate shrub with simple, and often glandular hairs, sessile, sometimes clustered, linear to narrowly elliptic leaves, blue flowers and elliptic to oval fruit.

Where it grows

Subspecies confertifolia occurs on the Yorke Peninsula, on the Mount Lofty Ranges and on Kangaroo Island and subsp. linearis occurs on the Eyre Peninsula and in the Gawler Ranges of South Australia.

Other Scaevola plants

Naupaka · Scaevola acacioides · Common Fanflower · White Fan Flower · Scaevola amblyanthera · Scaevola anchusifolia · Scaevola angulata · Scaevola angustata · Scaevola archeriana · Scaevola argentea · Scaevola auriculata · Scaevola ballajupensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Scaevola linearis 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.

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