''Scaevola tenuifolia'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a prostrate herb with white to blue flowers and endemic to Western Australia.

Description

''Scaevola tenuifolia'' is a prostrate herb to in diameter with horizontal branches covered in rigid, short, stiff, simple hairs and smaller, red, glandular hairs. The leaves are linear-shaped, rolled under, sometimes toothed near the apex, sessile, long and wide. The flowers are on a curved

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up to long, bracts leaf-like, triangular to linear shaped and long. The white, blue to pale purple

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is long, wide, white hairs on the outer surface, thickly bearded on the inside, wings wide and long. Flowering occurs from August to January and the fruit is elliptic-shaped, about long, ribbed, and covered with long, upright hairs.

Taxonomy and naming

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

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(''tenuifolia'') means "narrow flowered".

Distribution and habitat

This scaevola grows in quartzite soils on East Mount Barren and Thumb Peak range.

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q17480677 tenuifolia Flora of Western Australia