特徵描述
屬列表
Scaevola 草海桐屬
標本列表
Scaevola 草海桐屬
型態特徵
Shrubs, glabrous or variously hairy. Leaves spirally arranged, entire, rarely sinuate or dentate. Inflorescence axillary, sessile or subsessile, calyx tube adnate to ovary; corolla irregular, 1-lipped, 5-lobed, valvate; anthers 2-celled, basifixed, dehiscent longitudinally; ovary inferior to subinferior, 1–2-celled, each cell with one axillary ovule, stigma usually 2-lobed. Fruit a drupe, more or less fleshy, with a hard stone containing 1 or 2 seeds.
A genus of about 100 species, mostly Australian, with others pantropical.
