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Scaevola oxyclona

Scaevola oxyclona
Photo: Melburnian, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Goodeniaceae (Goodeni family)
Native range
SC. Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Scaevola oxyclona, commonly known as tangled fanflower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a widely branched, spiny subshrub with narrowly egg-shaped, sometimes toothed leaves at the base of the plant, sessile, narrowly egg-shaped to linear stem leaves, pale blue flowers in spikes, and rough or wrinkled, oval fruit.

Where it grows

This species of Scaevola grows in sandy soils or in stony loam or clay on rocky outcrops and low ranges between the Fraser and Bremer Ranges, and in the Coolgardie bioregion of southern Western 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 oxyclona 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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