Scaevola glabrata

Scaevola glabrata is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a small, spreading shrub with fan-shaped blue flowers and elliptic to egg-shaped leaves.

Description
Scaevola glabrata is a spreading under-storey shrub to 70 cm tall with upright needle-shaped stems that are glabrous or with occasional scattered hairs. The leaves are sessile or with a very short petiole, occasionally almost stem-clasping, egg-shaped, toothed, 21-68 mm long and 6-26 mm wide. The flowers are borne on spikes up to 12 cm long, bracts elliptic-oval shaped and up to 15 mm long. The blue corolla is 14-24 mm long, hairy on the outside, bearded inside and the wings up to 10 mm wide. Flowering occurs February to September and the fruit is cylinder-shaped, 4-6 mm long, wrinkled and covered in soft hairs.

Taxonomy and naming
Scaevola glabrata was first formally described in 1986 by Roger Charles Carolin and the description was published in Flora of South Australia. The specific epithet (glabrata) means glabrous.

Distribution and habitat
This scaevola grows mostly in rocky locations, sometimes in sand, extending from the Northern Territory, not including Arnhem Land, south to the northern parts of South Australia and just over the border into Queensland.