Scaevola albida

Prostrate or ascending herb to 50 cm high; stems pubescent with antrorse hairs or glabrous. Leaves shortly petiolate, obovate to elliptic, 0.5–5 cm long, 1–25 mm wide, obtuse or acute, both surfaces appressed-pubescent to glabrescent, margins entire to toothed. Flowers sessile in upper axils, forming terminal leafy spikes to c. 25 cm long; bracteoles narrow-elliptic, 3–9 mm long. Sepals almost free, triangular, c. 0.5 mm long, ciliate; corolla 5–12 mm long, appressed-pubescent outside, sparsely bearded inside, pale blue or white, wings to 1 mm wide; indusium broad-triangular, with a posterior tuft of short white or purplish bristles and short white bristles around orifice. Fruit ellipsoid, 2–4 mm long, rugose, glabrous or pubescent. Flowers mainly Oct.–Jan.