Scaevola pulchella is a decumbent to prostrate much-branched perennial herb or shrub up to high. The stems are slender, more or less ridged and covered with silvery, long, spreading, soft
hairs. The leaves are
sessile, linear to elliptic to oblong-lance shaped, long, wide, margins usually smooth to finely toothed, covered with more or less thick simple hairs, and the larger leaves rounded with a point. The flowers are borne in terminal spikes up to long,
bracteoles narrowly linear to elliptic, long with clearly visible silky hairs in the leaf axils. The blue-mauve
corolla is long with simple hairs on the outer surface and more or less bearded on the inside and the flowers fan-shaped. Flowering occurs from June to October and the fruit is ellipsoidal or globe-shaped, covered with simple hairs, and measures up to in diameter covered with simple hairs. ==Taxonomy naming==