Scaevola globulifera is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to coastal areas of south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading, low-lying to ascending shrub with sessile, linear to narrowly lance-shaped, sometimes toothed leaves, blue to white flowers and elliptic fruit.
Description Scaevola globulifera is a low-lying to ascending shrub, that typically grows to a height of up to , and is usually glabrous, sometimes sticky when young. The leaves are sessile, sometimes toothed, linear to narrowly lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide. The flowers are borne in spikes up to long, with linear bracts long and narrowly lance-shaped bracteoles long. The sepals are egg-shaped, long and joined at the base and the petals are blue to white, long, more or less glabrous outside and bearded inside with wings about wide. Flowering mainly occurs from September to November, and the fruit is elliptic, up to in diameter.
Taxonomy and naming Scaevola globulifera was first formally described by Jacques Labillardière in 1805 in his Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen. The specific epithet (globulifera) means 'bearing a little fruit'.
Distribution and habitat This species of Scaevola grows in coastal areas of the south-west Western Australia between Northampton and Israelite Bay in the Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions, where it is found in sand on sandhills and limestone ridges.
Conservation status Scaevola globulifera is 'not threatened' by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.
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