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Sccievola L. 
Perennial herbs, shrubs and scramblers. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, entire or 
dentate, sessile or petiolate, often with axillary hair tufts, entire or irregularly serrated. 
Flowers strongly zygomorphic, solitary or in few-flowered cymes, with paired 
bracteoles, in leafy or bracteate spikes. Calyx adnate to ovary, lobes often obscure or 
absent. Corolla with tube split to the base on the upper side expanding distally into an 
open fan of five lobes, lobes winged white, blue, mauve, rarely yellow; throat often 
with hairs, hairs simple and/or multicellular (barbulae). Stamens free. Ovary inferior, 
1—2(—4) locular, style simple, stigma surrounded by an indusium, indusium oval to 
± horizontal, usually pubescent. Fruit indehiscent, mesocarp fleshy or ± dry, endocarp 
hard, sculptured, containing one or two seeds. Seeds ovoid, wingless. 
Key to Tasmanian species 
1. Flowers shortly pedunculate, plant prostrate rooting at nodes, lacking bristles around the distal 
end of the indusium . S. hookeri 
1. Flowers sessile, plant procumbent or ascending not rooting at nodes, conspicuous bristles 
around the distal end of the indusium... 2 
2. Leaves > 15 mm long, margin dentate, flowers lilac or bright blue with yellow throat, 
conspicuous tuft of hairs on back of indusium. S. aemula 
2. Leaves < 15 mm long, margin basal half entire, upper half occasionally dentate, flowers light blue 
to white, throat white or yellow, lacking conspicuous tuft, but a few scattered hairs may be 
present on the back of indusium. S. albida 
Section Xerocarpa G. Don 
Subsection Pogonanthera (G. Don) Carolin 
Scaevola hookeri (de Vriese) F. Muell. ex Hook.f. (Fig. 1) 
Merkusia hookeri Vriese, Ned. Kruidk. Arch. 2: 159 (1851). Type: Hampshire Hills, Tas., 
Feb. 1837, R.C.Gunn 848, lectotype K, fide Carolin (1992a: 333); isolectotype H06975! 
Herb prostrate, mat forming, stoloniferous, stems to c. 15 cm long, rooting at nodes. 
Stem sparingly hispid with spreading simple hairs. Leaves sessile, ovate to oblong, 
8—11 (—25) mm long, 3-7(-8.5) mm wide, apex usually obtuse, margins entire or dentate 
with the proximal margin usually more strongly toothed, both surfaces sparsely 
appressed-pubescent to almost glabrous. Flowers solitary in leaf axils, on short stalk, 
2-10 mm long, with a pair of elliptical to oblong bracteoles, 3-5 mm long. Sepal lobes 
absent or minute. Corolla 5-8 mm long, hispid outside, elliptical, 3^1 mm long, white 
to pale pink, throat, yellow-white, sparsely pubescent inside. Stamens 5, anther oblong, 
glabrous, c. 0.7 mm long. Ovary glabrous or sparingly hirsute, c. 1.0 mm long, style 3-4 mm 
long, indusium c. 1.4 mm wide, with a few bristles on the back and on the style and 
lacking conspicuous bristles around the elliptical orifice. Fruit oval in outline, 3.3-3.5 mm 
long, rugose, distally pubescent, white. 
Selected specimens examined: Tasmania: North East: George Town, 41°06'S 146°50'E, R.C. Gunn s.n., 
10 Jan 1843 (H06976); Blue Tier, A. Simson s.n., 1878 (HO6960). Midlands: Harford, heathy lands, 
41°15'S 146°33'E, H.J. Hamilton 18, 1 Feb 1932 (H06978). East Coast: Friendly Beaches Road, 
42°00'S 148°15'E, altitude 10 m, A. Moscal 6155 ,10 Feb 1984, (H0400485); BeUerive, L. Rodzvay s.n., 
Jan 1892, (H06977); BeUerive, L. Rodway s.n., 22 Feb 1913 (HO6980); Flagstaff Marsh, R. Schahinger 
s.n., 24 Jan 2001 (HO). Fumeaux: Lime Pit Road, N of Lady Barron, Flinders Island, 40°11'S 
148°14'E, coastal heath, altitude 10 m, Rozefelds 735 ,11 Dec 1997, (H0324535). North West: Rocky 
Cape, R.C.Gunn s.n., 1 Mar 1837 (H06973). Ben Lomond: Mt Barrow near road, altitude 1100 m, 
41°23'S 147°28'E, M.G. Noble 28989, 28 Jan 1980, (H074223); Ben Lomond 41°33'S 147°40'E, 
