''Scaevola brookeana'', or heart-leaved fan-flower, is a shrub in the family

Goodeniaceae Goodeniaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Asterales. It contains about 404 species in twelve genera. The family is distributed mostly in Australia, except for the genus '' Scaevola'', which is pantropical. Its species are found a ...

, native to

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to ...

. It grows to between 0.2 and 0.7 metres high and produces white or blue flowers from August to December in its native range. The species was formally described by Victorian Government Botanist

Ferdinand von Mueller Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (german: Müller; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Vic ...

in the tenth volume of '' Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae'' based on plant material collected by

Sarah Brooks Sarah Brooks (1850–1928) was an English-born botanical collector who collected many specimens in Western Australia. Sarah Theresa Brooks was born on 19 September 1850, on board the ship ''Harpley'', at Plymouth, England, before sailing to Austr ...

, after whom it is named.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q50804617 brookeana Plants described in 1884 Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller