Scaevola enantophylla, commonly known as climbing fan-flower,is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a scrambling vine with yellow fan-shaped flowers, and the only species in the genus with leaves arranged in opposite pairs.
Description Scaevola enantophylla is a scrambling vine up to long, it may be smooth or with soft, short hairs. The leaves are egg-shaped to lance-shaped, finely toothed, arranged in opposite pairs, long, wide, tapering to a point on a short petiole. The fan-shaped flowers are borne in cymes in leaf axils on a peduncle up to long, triangular bracteoles usually up to long, and each flower on a pedicel up to long. The yellow corolla is long, smooth on the outside, thickly bearded on the inside, and the wings up to wide. Flowering occurs from July to November and the fruit is narrowly egg-shaped, black, long, smooth or with occasional hairs.
Taxonomy Scaevola enantophylla was first formally described in 1873 by Ferdinand von Mueller and the description was published in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae.
Distribution and habitat Climbing fan-flower grows near forests on the east coast of Queensland.
References
External links Scaevola enantophylla (Flickr) Scaevola enantophylla Images (North Queensland Plants) Scaevola enantophylla: Isotype (U0253443) collected J.Dallachy at Rockingham Bay