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Scaevola macrophylla, commonly known as large-flowered scaevola,[1] is an erect herb (woody at base) growing to 0.4 m high, with blue flowers, in the family Goodeniaceae, native to Western Australia.[4]

Scaevola macrophylla
Conservation status
Critically endangered  (EPBC Act)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Goodeniaceae
Genus:	Scaevola
Species:	S. macrophylla
Binomial name
Scaevola macrophylla (de Vriese) Benth.[2][3]

The species was first formally described in 1854 by Willem Hendrik de Vriese[5][6] and in 1868 George Bentham in the fourth volume of Flora Australiensis assigned it to the genus, Scaevola.[2][3]

It occurs in the Cape Riche area, in south-western Western Australia.[7] The species is described as "extremely rare", being documented on only four occasions, a discovery after a controlled burn in 2021 was its first record since 1990.[8]

It has been declared to be a threatened species,[4] and critically endangered under the EPBC Act.[1]

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