shining fanflower

Scaevola nitida is a spreading, glabrous shrub that typically grows up to 3 m (9.8 ft) and is sticky when young. Its leaves are sessile, egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, to narrowly elliptic, 20–87 mm (0.79–3.43 in) long and 7–40 mm (0.28–1.57 in) wide with toothed edges. The flowers are borne in spikes up to 65 mm (2.6 in) long on the ends of branches with lance-shaped to egg-shaped bracts 8–23 mm (0.31–0.91 in) long and linear bracteoles 5–9 mm (0.20–0.35 in) long. The sepals are rim-like, 0.3 mm (0.012 in) high and the petals blue to lilac, 13–20 mm (0.51–0.79 in) long, with soft hairs or glabrous on the outside and bearded inside. The ovary has two locules. Flowering occurs from August to December and the fruit is cylindrical and grooved, up to 4 mm (0.16 in) long and glabrous.

This species of Scaevola occurs on coastal limestone cliffs and dunes in sand or clay, from north of Perth to near Albany in the Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain, and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.