Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Scaevola albida
Common name
Pale fan-flower
Family
Goodeniaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, heath, and shrubland, sometimes colonising bare ground. Coast and ranges, occasionally on the tablelands.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.5 m high or prostrate, often woody at the base. Stems hairy with curled simple hairs, or hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.6–5 cm long, 1–25 mm wide, tips blunt or pointed, both surfaces appressed-hairy to becoming hairless, margins toothed to entire. Flowers blue or white, 5–12 mm long, tubular, the tube split to the base, with 5 lobes. Flowers in leafy spikes to about 25 cm long. Flowering throughout the year. Fruit dry, wrinkled, hairless or hairy.
Varieties as described in PlantNET are not recognised by the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria. (accessed 3 May 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Scaevola~albida (accessed 3 May 2021)
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