Scaevola calendulacea Druce

Prostrate shrub with flowering stems to 40 cm high, with appressed hairs. Leaves oblanceolate to obovate, tapering basally, entire; lamina to 80 mm long, to 27 mm wide; axillary hairs white. Flowers in terminal spikes to 8 cm long; lowest bracts mostly oblong-oblanceolate, 5–40 mm long, half length of flower; bracteoles linear to narrowly elliptic, 3–6 mm long. Sepals united in a tube, sinuate, ciliate, 0.5–1 mm long. Corolla 12–18 mm long, pubescent outside, bearded inside, bright blue; barbulae numerous, broad, often papillate apically; wings 1–2 mm wide. Ovary 2-locular; indusium 2 mm wide, with few hairs basally. Fruit globular, to 12 mm diam., glabrous, white and purplish.

It is a tropical plant. It grows on sand dunes near the coast. It can tolerate salt spray. It grows on sand islands along the Queensland coast. It cannot tolerate frost. Coffs Harbour Botanical Gardens.

Plants can be grown from cuttings. It can be grown from seeds by putting them in a cool dark location unit they germinate.