Scaevola tenuifolia
Scaevola tenuifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a prostrate herb with white to blue flowers and endemic to Western Australia.

Description
Scaevola tenuifolia is a prostrate herb to  in diameter with horizontal branches covered in rigid, short, stiff, simple hairs and smaller, red, glandular hairs. The leaves are linear-shaped, rolled under, sometimes toothed near the apex, sessile,  long and  wide.  The flowers are  on a curved peduncle up to  long, bracts leaf-like, triangular to linear shaped and  long.  The  white, blue to pale purple corolla is  long,  wide,  white hairs on the outer surface, thickly bearded on the inside, wings  wide and  long. Flowering occurs from August to January and the fruit is elliptic-shaped, about  long, ribbed, and covered with long, upright hairs.

Taxonomy and naming
Scaevola tenuifolia was first formally described in 1990 Roger Charles Carolin and the description was published in Telopea.The specific epithet (tenuifolia) means "narrow flowered".

Distribution and habitat
This scaevola grows in quartzite soils on East Mount Barren and Thumb Peak range.

References

 

tenuifolia
Flora of Western Australia