Scaevola sericea var. taccada (Gaertn.) Thieret & B.Lipscomb (Beach Grape)

Overview

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Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Beach Grape, Beach Plum, Half Flower, Sea Lettuce

Description

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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]

Taxonomy

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Domain: Eukaryota () - Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae () - Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
  - Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae () - Cavalier-Smith, 1981
    - Phylum: Tracheophyta () - Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
      - Subphylum: Euphyllophytina ()
        Infraphylum: Radiatopses () - Kenrick & Crane, 1997
        Class: Spermatopsida () - Brongniart, 1843
        Subclass: Asteridae () - Takhtajan, 1967
        Superorder: Campanulanae () - Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
        Order: Asterales () - Lindley, 1833
        Family: Goodeniaceae () - R. Brown, 1810, nom. corr.
        Genus: Scaevola () - C. Linnaeus, 1771, nom. cons. - Naupaka
        Specific epithet: sericea - (Gaertn.) Thieret & B.Lipscomb
        Variety: taccada
        Botanical name: - Scaevola sericea var. taccada (Gaertn.) Thieret & B.Lipscomb (Gaertn.) Thieret & B.Lipscomb