Currant Bush

John Baas — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 04:03:00 GMT

Rigid, divaricate & spiny shrub, 0.2-2 m high, with dwarf branchlets. Fl. white-cream/yellow, Jan to Dec.
Family: Goodeniaceae Genus: Scaevola Species: spinescens Main Flower Colour: White

Scaevola spinescens - Spiny Fanflower

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 04:05:00 GMT

Rigid divaricate shrub to 2 m high, with short branchlets often spinose, glabrous or with branched scurfy hairs, greyish when young. Leaves often clustered on branchlets, obovate to linear, 0.9–3.6 cm long, 1–6 mm wide, margins entire, thick; sessile. Flowers solitary in leaf axils; stalks slender, 5–20 mm long; bracts leaf-like; bracteoles immediately below ovary. Sepals fused into a rim 1 mm long. Corolla 9–16 mm long, densely bearded inside with all simple hairs, white or cream occasionally with purple veins; wings to 1 mm wide, laciniate. Anthers glabrous. Indusium with scattered hairs above.
Family: Goodeniaceae Genus: Scaevola Species: spinescens Main Flower Colour: White

Goodeniaceae Scaevola spinescens Wildflowers

Currant Bush

Scaevola spinescens - Spiny Fanflower