Characteristics
Dicots
Scaevola taccada (Gaertn.)Roxb.
BEACH NAUPAKA
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Integrading varieties are sometimes recognized, with plants of var. sericea being sericeous and those of var. taccada tending to be glabrate.
Not Native
FISC(I)
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Classification
Citation
SCAEVOLA TACCADA (Gaertner) Roxburgh, Hort. Beng. 15. 1814.
Lobelia taccada Gaertner 1788.
INDIA: Kerala: Malabar, without data (lectotype: Rheede, Hort. Malab. 4: t. 59. 1683). Lectotypified by H. St. John, Taxon 9: 204. 1960.
Species Distribution Map
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