Scaevola plumieri

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Asterales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Campanulids Ordo: Asterales

Familia: Goodeniaceae
Subfamilia: Goodenioideae
Genus: Scaevola
Species: Scaevola plumieri

Name

Scaevola plumieri (L.) Vahl, 1791

Synonyms

Cerbera ovata Sieber ex DC., Prod. 7: 507 (1839)
Lobelia americana Willd. ex A.DC., DC. Prod. 7: 387, 507 (1839)
Lobelia plumieri L., Sp. Pl. 929 (1753) p. p.
Scaevola ivifolia L´Hér. ex Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. II. 325 (1830)
Scaevola macraei de Vriese, Nederl. Kruidk. Arch. 2: I. 30 (1851)
Scaevola senegalensis C.Presl, Reliq. Haenk. 2: 59 (1835)
Scaevola sieberi de Vriese, Nat. Verh. Haarl. 10: 33 (1854)
Scaevola thunbergii Eckl. & Zeyh., Enum. 387 (1837)
Scaevola uvifera Stocks, Wight, Ic. t. 1613 (1850)
Scaevola lobelia Murray, Syst. Veg., ed. 13 (Engl. trans.), 178 (1774)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Tropics & Subtropics
- - Andaman Is., Angola, Bahamas, Benin, Bermuda, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Cambodia, Cape Provinces, Cayman Is., Chagos Archipelago, Congo, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Florida, Gabon, Galápagos, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Haiti, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kazan-retto, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Liberia, Louisiana, Madagascar, Malaya, Mauritius, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Netherlands Antilles, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Ogasawara-shoto, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Réunion, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is., Somalia, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Texas, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

References

Primary references

Vahl, M. 1791. Symbolae botanicae, sive plantarum, tam earum, quas in itinere, imprimis orientali, collegit Petrus Forskål, quam aliarum, recentius detectarum, exactiores descriptiones, nec non observationes circa quasdam plantas dudum cognitas. Pars 2. 108 pp., tt. 26–50. Nicolaus Möller & fil., Hauniae [Copenhagen]. BHL Reference page. : 2:36.

Additional references

Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Scaevola plumieri in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Sep 19. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2021. Scaevola plumieri. Published online. Accessed: Sep 19 2021.
Tropicos.org 2021. Scaevola plumieri. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 19 Sep 2021.
Hassler, M. 2021. Scaevola plumieri. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2021. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Sep 19. Reference page.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Scaevola plumieri in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 09-Oct-10.

Vernacular names

Afrikaans: Seeplakkie
English: Gullfeed; Black soap, Inkberry, Mad moll (Bahamas), Cerise bord de mer, Gull feed, Prune bord de mer (Lesser Antilles)
español: Bosborin (Cuba), Borbon, Coralillo (Puerto Rico)
français: Epinard la mer (Haiti)
isiXhosa: uMqhaphu