skeleton fan-flower

Scaevola depauperata is an upright, many stemmed perennial up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) high with small glandular and simple hairs, the stems almost smooth and ridged. The leaves at the base are sessile, ovate to spoon-shaped, toothed, 60 mm (2.4 in) long and 15 mm (0.59 in) wide, older leaves more or less triangular and up to 3 mm (0.12 in) long. The corolla is cream, blue or mauve, occasionally with darker lines, petals tapering to a point, 2–30 mm (0.079–1.181 in) long, the outside covered with small, soft, upright hairs, inside thickly bearded, and the wings 1 mm (0.039 in) wide. The peduncle up to 6 cm (2.4 in) long, sepals are triangular shaped, 1–4 mm (0.039–0.157 in) long, fused at the base and the bracteoles triangular shaped and 2–4 mm (0.079–0.157 in) long. Flowering occurs from April to December and the fruit ellipsoid shaped, 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) long, warty, with tiny, simple and glandular hairs sometimes longer and simple.

Skeleton fan-flower grows on sand dunes and sandy soils in mallee in South Australia, Victoria, the Northern Territory, New South Wales and Queensland.