Scaevola spinescens R.Br.

Rigid, divaricate shrub to 2 m tall, glabrous or with substellate scurfy hairs, greyish when young; dwarf branchlets often spinescent. Leaves often clustered on branchlets, sessile, obovate to linear, entire, thick; lamina 9-36 mm long, 1-6 mm wide. Flowers solitary in axils; peduncle slender, 5-20 mm long; bracteoles linear, 2-5 mm long, ±equal to ovary. Sepals rim-like, to 1 mm long. Corolla 9-16 mm long, scurfy or glabrous outside, densely bearded inside, white or yellowish, occasionally with purple veins; barbulae broad, prominent, simple; wings to 1 mm wide, laciniate. Indusium to 2 mm wide, with scattered hairs above. Fruit ovoid, 5-8 mm long, glabrous, black or purplish.

A tropical plant. It grows in the drier inland regions of Western Australia. It is mostly in tropical and subtropical places.

The fruit were eaten by people in the Flinder's ranges.

Can be grown by seedlings.