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a pair of bracteoles, narrowly oblanceolate, almost linear in dried specimens, 5-6 mm 
long, with conspicuous antrorse hairs along margins and on both surfaces, flowers 
usually restricted to the ends of leafy and bracteate spikes up to c. 45 cm long. Sepal 
lobes, triangular, c. 0.5 mm long, with antrorse hairs. Corolla 16-20 mm long, with 
appressed hairs outside, narrowly oblong, 8-12 mm long, purple (when fresh) often 
blue or white when dried, with a few barbulae near the basal margins of the lobes, 
throat yellow or white, sparsely pubescent inside. Stamens 5, anther oblong, glabrous, 
c. 1.0 mm long. Ovary pubescent or sparingly hirsute, 2-3 mm long, 2-locular, style 8-9 
mm long, indusium c. 1.5 mm wide with a posterior tuft of long mauve-brown bristles, 
and white bristles around elliptical orifice. Fruits not seen. (Fig. 4) 
Selected specimens examined: Tasmania: East Coast: On Top of Tiers, Swansea, Storey s.n. 
(MEL1520774); Swanport, Storey s.n. (MEL1520757); Prosser River, 42°33'S 147°52'E, F. Hood s.n., Mar 
1979 (H029298); Apsley River, 41°53'S 148°11'E, P. Collier s.n., 2 Nov 1985 (H0116784); On or near 
convict road between Prosser Dam and Triabunna, 42°33'S 147°55'E, D. Gregson s.n., 5 Mar 1979 
(H029234); Swanport, 42°05'S 148°05'E, L. Rodway 480, Dec 1892 (H06957); Douglas Apsley 
National Park, 4T52'S 148°1TE, altitude 80m, K. Johnson s.n., 16 Mar 1997, (H0321292); Small hill 
SW of Cusicks Hill, 41°57’46"S 148 ! T4’26”E, altitude 100m, area previously burnt by fire, Rozefelds 
1671,5 Apr 2000 (H0503400). Victoria: Mallee sandhills W of Lake Albacutya, 35°44'S 141°55'E, area 
burnt by wildfire in Dec 1977, A. Morton s.n., 17 Nov 1979 (MEL562061); 6 mis [= 9.6 km] W of 
Annuello, burnt three or four years ago, N. MacFarlane s.n., 8 Feb 1971 (MEL1520822). 
Remarks: The species has a prominent tuft of hairs on the top surface of the indusium. 
No fruiting material has been collected from Tasmanian plants. Jeanes (1999) recorded 
that the fruits in mainland material are ovoid, 3-4 mm long, rugose and pubescent. 
Distribution and Ecology: Rozefelds 1671 records the species growing in a Eucalyptus 
amygdalina community on dolerite. Scaevola aemula in Tasmania is restricted to the 
Great Oyster Bay region which was recognised by Kirkpatrick & Brown (1984a, b) as 
a centre of higher-plant endemicity in Tasmania (Fig 2A). The Tasmanian populations 
of S. aemula, along with Eucalyptus barberi, Ozothamnus lycopodioides, Lasiopetalum 
micrantheum and Melaleuca pustulate are restricted to doleritic soils in this region. 
Scaevola aemula is also known from South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales 
(Carolin 1992a). 
Flowering: recorded in flower in November and December, and March and April. 
Conservation Status: The species is currently listed as 'endangered' in the Tasmanian 
Threatened Species Protection Act (1995). Scaevola aemula in both Tasmania and 
Victoria appears to have a disturbance-based ecology and is recorded as appearing 
after fire or disturbance due to land clearing. Some specimens show evidence of 
having been grazed, although it is unknown whether this is by native marsupials or 
introduced mammals. It is also unknown whether this grazing pressure could be 
impacting negatively on the species. 
Scaevola albida (Smith) Druce 
Goodenia albida Smith, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot 2: 348 (1794). Type: Port Jackson, 
N.S.W., J. White, holotype Linn-SM, fide Carolin (1992a: 122). 
Prostrate to ascending herb to 20 cm high, forming irregular clumps, stems with 
antrorse strigose hairs. Leaves shortly petiolate to sessile, obovate to elliptical, 7-14 mm 
long and 2.2-5.0 mm wide, apex acute, margin of basal half of leaf entire, upper half 
occasionally dentate, a few to scattered antrorse strigose hairs on upper surface, and 
on leaf margins and main vein on undersurface. Flowers solitary in leaf axils, sessile, 
with a pair of narrow oblanceolate bracteoles, 9-10 mm long, with a few antrorse hairs 
along margins, flowers usually restricted to the ends of leafy and bracteate spikes up 
to c. 7 cm long. Sepal lobes deltoid, c. 0.6 mm long, margin sparsely ciliate. Corolla 8-12 mm 
