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Family Scientific Name Scaevola taccada (Gaertn.) Roxb.

Roxburgh, W. (1824) Flora Indica 2: 146. Flower. Copyright Barry Jago Common name Native Cabbage; Cardwell Cabbage; Cabbage, Native; Cabbage, Cardwell; Beach Scaevola; Beach Cabbage; Sea Lettuce Tree; Pipe Tree; Fanflower; Cabbage, Beach Stem Usually flowers and fruits as a shrub about 1-3 m tall. Leaves Twigs marked by distinctive crescent-shaped leaf scars each having about 8-10 circular scars left by Leaves and Flowers. Copyright CSIRO vascular bundles. Leaf blades shiny, thick and fleshy, about 4-23 x 2-9 cm, completely glabrous on both the upper and lower surfaces. Flowers Corolla about 14-28 mm long, tubular but completely split along one side, lobes with wavy (flounced?) margins. Anther cells quite discrete. Anther connective broad, truncate or concave at the apex. Stigma nodding, surrounded by a bearded funnel-like structure. Fruit Fruits about 7-13 mm long, white and fleshy but the seeds surrounded by a layer which becomes dry and spongy or corky at or following maturity. Leaves, flowers and fruit. Copyright CSIRO Seedlings Cotyledons elliptic to obovate, about 15-21 x 8-10 mm, petiole about 6-7 mm long. First pair of leaves fleshy, margins with a few teeth towards the apex, hairy on both the upper and lower surfaces or at least the lower surface. At the tenth leaf stage: leaf blade thick and fleshy, obovate, apex obtuse, base attenuate, sessile, both the upper and lower surfaces of the leaf blade clothed in pale hairs. Conspicuous tufts of white hairs present in the leaf axils. Venation obscure. Seed germination time 32 to 36 days. Fruit, two views, cross section and seed. Copyright W. T. Distribution and Ecology Cooper Occurs in WA, NT, CYP, NEQ and CEQ. Altitudinal range quite small, +/- confined to beaches just above sea level. Usually grows in shrubland or on the edges of beach forest. Also occurs in , , SE Asia, Malesia and the Pacific as far east as Hawaii. Natural History & Notes Fruit eaten by Cassowaries and Silver-eyes. Cooper & Cooper (1994). Herb (herbaceous or woody, under 1 m tall) X Scale bar 10mm. Copyright CSIRO Shrub (woody or herbaceous, 1-6 m tall) X Synonyms Lobelia taccada Gaertn., Fruct. Sem. Pl. 1: 119(1788), Type: e collect. sem. hort. lugdb.; holo: L. Fide C. Jeffrey, Kew Bull. 34: 543 (1980). Scaevola sericea Vahl, Symbolae Botanicae 2 : 37(1791), Type: Habitat in Savage . .. Dn. Prof. Fabricius. Scaevola lobelia de Vriese, Nederlandsch Kruidkundig Archief 2 : 20(1850). Scaevola koenigii Vahl, Symbolae Botanicae 3 : 36(1794), Type: Habitat in orientali. Lobelia sericea var. koenigii (M.Vahl) Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 377(1891). Scaevola frutescens K.Krause, Das Pflanzenreich Heft 54 : 125(1912), Type: Island, G. Forster; holo: C. Fide C. Jeffrey (1980) Kew Bull. 34: 543. Scaevola frutescens var. koenigii (M.Vahl) Domin, Bibliotheca Botanica 89(4): 1200(1928). RFK Code 3099 CC-BY Australian Tropical Herbarium unless otherwise indicated in the images. 10th leaf stage. Copyright CSIRO

Cotyledon and 1st leaf stage, epigeal germination. Copyright CSIRO