Scaevola parvibarbata Carolin

Erect herb to 50 cm tall, woody basally, with curled or not appressed hairs. Leaves sessile, oblanceolate to orbicular, usually prominently triangular-toothed, surface usually visible beneath hairs; lamina 8-40 mm long, 4-20 mm wide. Flowers in spikes to 25 cm long; bracts leaf-like but smaller; bracteoles linear, to 5 mm long. Sepals rim-like, to 1 mm long. Corolla 11-25 mm long, with short, appressed, white hairs outside, densely bearded inside, lilac or greenish; barbulae simple; wings to 1 mm wide. Ovary 2-locular; indusium 1-2.5 mm wide, sparse white beard scacely reaching lips. Fruit obovoid, 3-5 mm long, rugose, hairy.

Grows in dry open communities, mostly in sandy soil.