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)
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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