It is a small, spreading shrub with blue to mauve flowers borne on terminal spikes and is endemic to Western Australia.

Scaevola pulchella is a decumbent to prostrate much-branched perennial herb or shrub up to 90 cm (35 in) high.

The leaves are sessile, linear to elliptic to oblong-lance shaped, 15–40 mm (0.59–1.57 in) long, 4–10 mm (0.16–0.39 in) wide, margins usually smooth to finely toothed, covered with more or less thick simple hairs, and the larger leaves rounded with a point.

The blue-mauve corolla is 1.3–2.2 cm (0.51–0.87 in) long with simple hairs on the outer surface and more or less bearded on the inside and the flowers fan-shaped.

[2][3] Scaevola pulchella was first formally described in 1990 by Roger Charles Carolin and the description was published in Telopea.