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Scaevola nitida
Scaevola nitida, commonly known as shining fanflower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading, glabrous shrub with sessile, egg-shaped to narrowly elliptic leaves with toothed edges, spikes of blue to lilac flowers, and cylindrical fruit.
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.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Scaevola nitida by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
