Erect subshrub to 50 cm tall, almost glabrous, with minute glandular hairs on young parts. Leaves sessile, narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong, acute, entire or dentate; lamina 12-43 mm long, 3-15 mm wide. Flowers in spikes to 14 cm long; bracts leafy; bracteoles narrowly ovate, 8-11 mm long. Sepals broadly ovate, to 0.5 mm long, connate. Corolla 16-24 mm long, with ±appressed hairs outside, bearded inside, blue; barbulae few, simple; wings c. 1 mm wide. Ovary 2-locular; indusium 1-1.5 mm long, stiff purplish beard ±equalling bristles on lips. Fruit cylindrical, 2-4 mm long, rugose, slightly pubescent.

Flowers chiefly May-Aug.

Occurs in the Musgrave and Tomkinson Ranges, north-western S.A.

Found in open communities in rocky soil.

S.A.: Ernabella Mission, 4 July 1963, F.Turney (NSW).

near Ernabella, Musgrave Ra., S.A., 24 Sept. 1945, J.B.Cleland ; holo: AD.

Indusium depressed-obovate. Similar to Scaevola laciniata but that species has less dentate leaves and the corolla glabrous outside. Also similar to S. amblyanthera which has leaves with at least some hairs of various types.

Data derived from Flora of Australia Volume 35 (1992), a product of ABRS, ©Commonwealth of Australia