Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Scaevola calendulacea

Common name

Dune Fan-flower

Family

Goodeniaceae

Where found

Coastal dunes.

Notes

Prostrate shrub, flowering stems to 0.4 m high. Fruit fleshy. Stems hairy with appressed hairs. Leaves alternating along the stems, 3–8 cm long, 5–27 mm wide, thick, tips blunt, both surfaces appressed-hairy, margins entire or obscurely toothed, usually curved down. Flowers blue, 12–20 mm long, tubular, the tube split to the base, with 5 lobes. Flowers in leafy elongated clusters to about 8 cm long. Fruit white to purplish or white and purplish, almost round, 7–12 mm in diameter, hairless. Flowers throughout the year. 

Vulnerable Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Scaevola~calendulacea (accessed 6 February, 2021)