Scaevola chrysopogon
Scaevola chrysopogon is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a small, understorey shrub with fan-shaped cream or white flowers and is endemic to Western Australia.
Description
Scaevola chrysopogon is a small, understorey shrub up to high, slender, ridged stems, smooth or with scattered, flattened hairs mostly near leaf axils. The lower leaves near the base are egg-shaped, tapering toward the base, toothed, long and wide. The terminal, older leaves narrowly elliptic, smooth margins, sessile and long. The flowers are on spikes up to long, bracts similar to older, terminal leaves, peduncle less than long. The corolla is cream to white, long, covered with fine, flattened or curved hairs on the outside, thickly bearded inside and the wings about wide. Flowering occurs from August to October.
Taxonomy and naming
Scaevola chrysopogon was first formally described in 1990 by Roger Charles Carolin and the description was published in Telopea. The specific epithet means "golden" and "bearded".
Distribution
This scaevola grows near Shark Bay and south to Wannoo in Western Australia.