''Scaevola globosa'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a small, spreading shrub with fan-shaped yellow flowers and elliptic to egg-shaped leaves.

Description

''Scaevola globosa'' is a small shrub to high and wide, sticky stems with simple and glandular hairs. The leaves are sessile, occasionally almost stem-clasping, egg-shaped, toothed, long and wide. The flowers are borne in spikes up to long inside a dense, globose mass of soft hairs and the wings up to wide. Flowering occurs from February to September and the fruit cylinder shaped, long, wrinkled and covered with soft hairs.

Taxonomy and naming

This scaevola was first formally described by Roger Charles Carolin in 1974 as ''Nigromnia globosa''. In 1990 Carolin changed the name to ''Scaevola globosa''. The

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(''globosa'') refers to the inflorescence.

Distribution and habitat

''Scaevola globosa'' grows in sandy soils near Carnamah,

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and Mingenew.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q17480595 globosa Flora of Western Australia