Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Scaevola plumieri
uva de mar, inkberry, sea grape, gullfeed
A small coastal shrub with round, thick leathery and shiny leaves. The black shiny fruit look like large grapes. Bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, 3-7 mm long; calyx truncate or very shallowly 5-toothed, the collar about 1 mm high (Wiggins and Porter, 1971).
In sandy soil and upper beaches (Wiggins and Porter, 1971).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Campanulales
Family
Goodeniaceae
Genus
Scaevola
Species
plumieri
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Scaevola lobelia Murray fide Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Missouri Botanical Garden (2010)
Taxon origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: The native range of this species is Tropics & Subtropics (POWO, 2023).
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