Scaevola sericea

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Thick-stemmed native shrub occurring along beaches throughout the pacific. One of very few native plants that has found its way into nursery trade, used in landscaping.

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Genus Scaevola

Herbs or shrubs . Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, entire or toothed . Flowers in dichasial cymes, sessile or pedicellate . Calyx lobes obsolete or conspi¬cuous. Corolla oblique , split to the base on one side; lobes subequal , spreading . Stamens with free anthers . Ovary usually inferior, 2-loculed; ovules l-2 in each, erect ; style simple with pollen cup enclosing a truncate or 2 lobed stigma. Fruit a drupe.

A genus with 80-100 tropical and sub-tropical species; mostly Australian and Polynesian.[1]

Physical Description

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Culture: Space 6-8' apart.

Soil: Minimum pH: 5.6 • Maximum pH: 6.0

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 10a, 10b, 11. (map)

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Scaevola Frutescens Sericea • Scaevola lobelia L. var. sericea (Vahl) Benth. • Scaevola Lobelia Sericea • Scaevola Sericea

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Similar Species

Members of the genus Scaevola

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 27 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

S. aemula (Blue Wonder) · S. aemula 'Blue Wonder' (Fan Flower) · S. aemula 'Diamond' (Fan Flower) · S. aemula 'New Wonder' (Fan Flower) · S. aemula 'Purple Fanfare' (Fan Flower) · S. aemula 'Whirlwind Blue' (Fan Flower) · S. aemula 'White Fan' (Fan Flower) · S. aemula 'Zig Zag' (Fan Flower) · S. cerasifolia (Naupaka) · S. chamissoniana (Naupaka Kuahiwi) · S. coriacea (Dwarf Naupaka) · S. gaudichaudiana (Mountain Naupaka) · S. gaudichaudii (Naupaka Kuahiwi) · S. glabra ('ohe Naupaka) · S. hobdyi (Hobdy's Naupaka) · S. kilaueae (Huahekili Uka) · S. mollis (Purple Naupaka) · S. plumieri (Beachberry) · S. procera (Forest Naupaka) · S. ramosissima (Hairy Fan-Flower) · S. ramosissima 'Marion' (White Fan Flower) · S. sericea (Beach Naupaka) · S. sericea var. sericea (Beach Naupaka) · S. sericea var. taccada (Beach Naupaka) · S. sericea var. taccada (Gaertn.) Thieret & B.Lipscomb (Beach Grape) · S. 'Mauve Clusters' (Fan Flower) · S. 'Whirlwind White' (Fan Flower)

More Info

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Further Reading

• An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants, Manila, Bureau of Printing, 1922-26. url p. 590.
• Annales du Jardin botanique de Buitenzorg. 23 1910 Leiden [etc.]: E. J. Brill [etc.] url p. 84.
• Botanical publications of E.D. Merrill. [New York, etc., 1899- url p. 250, p. 354.
• Cooperative economic insect report. Hyattsville, MD. [etc.]Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs Animal and Plant Health Service. url p. 7.
• Flora Malesiana. general editor, C.G.G.J. van Steenis. Djakarta: Noordhoff-Kolff, 1950- url p. 566, p. 593, p. 951.
• Flora Vitiensis nova: a new Flora of Fiji (spermatophytes only) / Albert C. Smith. Lawaii, Hawaii: Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, 1979- url p. 248, p. 250, p. 251, p. 253.
• Flora of Japan: in English: combined, much revised and extended translation / by the author of his Flora of Japan (1953) and Flora of Japan, Pteridophyta (1957); edited by Frederick G. Meyer and Egbert H. Walker. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1965. url p. 855.
• Hooker, W. J. & G. A. W. Arnott. The botany of Captain Beechey's voyage;comprising an acount of the plants collected by Messrs. Lay and Collie, and other officers of the expedition, during the voyage to the Pacific and Behring's Strait, performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey. .. in the years 1825, 26, 27, and 28.By Sir William Jackson Hooker. .. and G. A. Walker Arnott. .. 1841 London, H. G. Bohn, 1841. url p. 89.
• IUCN Directory of Protected Areas in Oceania IUCN url p. 124, p. 128, p. 445.
• Observations of a naturalist in the Pacific between 1896 and 1899 / by H.B. Guppy. London: Macmillan and Co., 1903-1906. url p. 623.
• Observations on the flora of Japan. Tokyo, 1901-1914. url p. 30.
• Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 409.
• Plants in Danger: what do we know? IUCN url p. 230.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 74.
• Protected Landscapes: experience around the world. Prepared for the International Symposium on Protected Landscapes, Grange-over-Sands, England 5-10 October 1987 IUCN url p. 215, p. 219, p. 229.
• Results of the first Joint US-USSR Central Pacific Expedition (BERPAC): Autumn 1988 / John F. Turner, . .. [et al.]; P.A. Nagel, editor. Washington, DC: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1992. url p. 22, p. 25, p. 26, p. 28.
• Special scientific report--wildlife / U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service, 1949- url p. 51.
• The Bradley bibliography; a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century; Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1911-18. url p. 847.
• The Entomologist's record and journal of variation. s.l., s.n. url p. 74, p. 75.
• The Philippine journal of science. 5 1910 Manila. url p. 250, p. 251.
• The botany of Captain Beechey's voyage comprising an account of the plants collected by Messrs. Lay and Collie, and other officers of the expedition during the voyage to the Pacific and Bering's Strait, performed in His Majesty's Ship Blos London: H.G. Bohn, 1841. url .
• Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: the IUCN Red Data Book IUCN url .

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 24, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 5 providers.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
• USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (May 01, 2008)

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 19, 2007:

• Australian National Herbarium
• , Australian National Herbarium
• Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Virtual Herbarium Darwin Core format
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• National Herbarium of New South Wales, Plants of Papua New Guinea
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2669219
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-505045
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13762390
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:384321-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 70614
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 505045
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 159561-3
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: SCTAS SCSE
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 61615

Footnotes

1. "Scaevola". in Flora of Pakistan . Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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