Scaevola

Belongs within: Goodeniaceae.

Scaevola, fan-flowers, is a pantropical genus of herbs or shrubs, most diverse in Australia, whose asymmetrical flowers have distinctly spreading corolla lobes (Black & Robertson 1965).

Characters (from Black & Robertson 1965): Herbs, undershrubs or shrubs; flowers sessile or pedunculate, in the axil of a leafy floral bract and with two narrow bracteoles at base. Sepals 5, short, sometimes minute; corolla slit to base on upper side, lobes subequal, spreading like a fan or the fingers of an open hand; wings equal; auricles absent; stamens free; ovary inferior, two-celled with one erect ovule in each cell, rarely one-celled with one or two erect basal ovules; style usually curved inwards at summit; indusium cup-shaped, ciliate at summit; fruit indehiscent, dry or succulent, endocarp usually bony; seeds oblong, embryo mostly terete.

<==Scaevola Linnaeus 1771A61
    |--S. sect. CrossotomaBR65
    |    |--S. bursariifoliaBR65
    |    `--S. spinescensBR65
    |--S. sect. PogonantheraBR65
    |    |--S. collarisBR65
    |    `--S. depauperataBR65
    `--S. sect. XerocarpaeaR65
         |--S. aemula Brown 1810 [incl. S. humilis Brown 1810]BR65
         |--S. albida (Smith) Druce 1917 [=Goodenia albida Smith 1794; incl. S. microcarpa Cavanilles 1801]BR65
         |--S. calendulacea (Andrews) Druce 1917 [=Goodenia calendulacea Andrews 1798; incl. S. suaveolens Brown 1810]BR65
         |--S. collina Black ex Robertson 1965R65
         |--S. crassifoliaBR65
         |--S. linearisBR65
         |    |--S. l. var. linearisBR65
         |    `--S. l. var. confertifoliaBR65
         |--S. nitidaBR65
         |--S. ovalifoliaBR65
         |    |--S. o. var. ovalifoliaBR65
         |    `--S. o. var. glabraBR65
         `--S. pallida [=S. microcarpa var. pallida]BR65
Scaevola incertae sedis:
  S. anchusifoliaK90
  S. basedowiiSM96
  S. brownianaLK14
  S. callipteraSP03
  S. dielsiiK90
  S. frutescensK03
  S. globuliferaGK00
  S. gracilis Hooker 1856A61
  S. holosericeaK90
  S. koenigiiYZ02
  S. lanceolataGK00
  S. macrostachyaLK14
  S. montanaBMM99
  S. myrtifolia [incl. S. groeneri]BR65
  S. paludosaK90
  S. parvifloraK90
  S. parvifoliaSM90
  S. phlebopetalaGK00
  S. platyphyllaGK00
  S. plumieri (Linnaeus) Vahl 1791 (see below for synonymy)GB02
  S. porocaryaK90
  S. repensKM08
    |--S. r. var. repensKM08
    `--S. r. var. erectaKM08
  S. revolutaLK14
    |--S. r. ssp. revolutaLK14
    `--S. r. ssp. stenostachyaLK14
  S. sericeaGB02
  S. taccadaSB12
  S. tomentosaKM08

Scaevola plumieri (Linnaeus) Vahl 1791 [=Lobelia plumieri Linnaeus 1753; incl. S. lobelia Murray 1774 (nom. illeg.)]^GB02

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[A61] Allan, H. H. 1961. Flora of New Zealand vol. 1. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. R. E. Owen, Government Printer: Wellington (New Zealand).

[BR65] Black, J. M., & E. L. Robertson. 1965. Flora of South Australia. Part IV. Oleaceae–Compositae. W. L. Hawes, Government Printer: Adelaide.

[BMM99] Braun, U., J. Mouchacca & E. H. C. McKenzie. 1999. Cercosporoid hyphomycetes from New Caledonia and some other South Pacific islands. New Zealand Journal of Botany 37: 297–327.

[GK00] Gibson, N., & G. J. Keighery. 2000. Flora and vegetation of the Byenup-Muir reserve system, south-west Western Australia. CALMScience 3 (3): 323–402.

[GB02] Gopalakrishna Bhat, K. 2002. Additions to the flora of Karnataka. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 99 (3): 566–567.

[K03] Kårehed, J. 2003. The family Pennantiaceae and its relationships to Apiales. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 141: 1–24.

[K90] Keighery, G. J. 1990. Vegetation and flora of Shark Bay, Western Australia. In: Berry, P. F., S. D. Bradshaw & B. R. Wilson (eds) Research in Shark Bay: Report of the France-Australe Bicentenary Expedition Committee pp. 61–87. Western Australian Museum.

[KM08] Keighery, G. J., & W. Muir. 2008. Vegetation and vascular flora of Faure Island, Shark Bay, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 75: 11–19.

[LK14] Lyons, M. N., G. J. Keighery, L. A. Gibson & T. Handasyde. 2014. Flora and vegetation communities of selected islands off the Kimberley coast of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 81: 205–244.

[R65] Robertson, E. L. 1965. Diagnoses to new taxa. In: Black, J. M., & E. L. Robertson. Flora of South Australia. Part IV. Oleaceae–Compositae pp. 946. W. L. Hawes, Government Printer: Adelaide.

[SP03] Sage, L. W., & J. P. Pigott. 2003. Conservation status of Goodenia (Goodeniaceae) in Western Australia, including a review of threatened, rare and poorly known species. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 86 (4): 123–132.

[SM90] Smith, G. T., & S. R. Morton. 1990. Responses by scorpions to fire-initiates succession in arid Australian spinifex grasslands. Journal of Arachnology 18: 241–244.

[SB12] Smith, M. J., C. R. J. Boland, D. Maple & B. Tiernan. 2012. The Christmas Island blue-tailed skink (Cryptoblepharus egeriae): a survey protocol and an assessment of factors that relate to occupancy and detection. Records of the Western Australian Museum 27 (1): 40–44.

[SM96] Southgate, R., & P. Masters. 1996. Fluctuations of rodent populations in response to rainfall and fire in a central Australian hummock grassland dominated by Plectrachne schinzii. Wildlife Research 23: 289–303.

[YZ02] Yahya, H. S. A., & A. A. Zarri. 2002. Status, ecology and behaviour of Narcondam hornbill (Aceros narcondami) in Narcondam Island, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 99 (3): 434–445.