Class
Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Scaevola gracilis Hook.f., J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 1: 129 (1856) – as Scævola gracilis
Description
Procumbent to ascending subshrub up to c. 1 m. tall; branches spreading, clad in long silky hairs; branchlets slightly zigzag, hairs long, ± appressed. Lvs on pilose flattened petioles up to c. 2 cm. long, axils villous. Lamina silky-hairy, somewhat obliquely lanceolate-oblong to obovate and cuneately narrowed to base; 2–4–(8) × 1–2–(3) cm. long, acute, serrate-dentate on upper part of margins. Fls c. 2 cm. long, fragrant, us. solitary, subsessile. Calyx cupular, indistinctly lobed. Corolla white with yellow throat; tube short, villous; lobes narrow-oblong, mucronate. Stamens < tube; style pilose; pollen-cup with fimbriate margins. Drupe ovoid to subglobose, white, 10–10·5 × 8–10·5 mm.; seeds compressed, c. 3 mm. long.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Phenology
Fruiting: Jan.–Dec.
Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [Naturally uncommon]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Naturally Uncommon]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Naturally Uncommon]
Hooker, J.D. 1856: On the Botany of Raoul Island, one of the Kermadec group in the South Pacific Ocean. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society. Botany. 1(3): 125–129.
