''Scaevola eneabba'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a small, spreading shrub with fan-shaped white to pink flowers and is endemic to Western Australia.

Description

''Scaevola eneabba'' is an understorey shrub up to high with long, upright, simple hairs but smooth at the base. The leaves are sessile, linear to oblong-lance shaped, thick, margins smooth, long and up to wide and rounded at the apex. The flowers are borne in terminal spikes up to long,

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s narrowly egg-shaped, up to long, about wide and with bristles on the margins. The white to pink

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is about long, outside covered with simple, rigid, brown hairs toward the apex and tiny, scattered hairs all over. The flower lobes are covered with soft hairs on the inside and throat, narrowly elliptic, about wide and the wings about wide. Flowering occurs around December.

Taxonomy and naming

''Scaevola eneabba'' was first formally described in 1990 by Roger Charles Carolin and the description was published in '' Telopea''. The

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(''eneabba'') refers to the type location.

Distribution and habitat

This scaevola grows in heath near Eneabba in Western Australia.

Conservation status

''Scaevola eneabba'' is listed as " Priority Two" by the Western Australian Government

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, meaning that it is poorly known and from only one or a few locations.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q17480646 eneabba Flora of Western Australia