Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Scaevola calendulacea

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Jackie Miles

Flowering and fruiting stems. Photographer Jackie Miles

Flowering plant. Photographer Jackie Miles

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)