Scaevola procera is a small tree or shrub, reaching heights of 1.5–3.5 meters, with simple, alternate leaves. These leaves are oblanceolate, measuring 4–12.8 cm in length and 2–5.1 cm in width, featuring an acute apex and an acuminate base. The surfaces are either glabrous or glabrate, and the margins are typically toothed from the apex to at least halfway down. The petioles are 1–1.5 cm long, and the plant lacks stipules. The flowers are (1–)3 in cymes, measuring 10–25 mm long, crowded near the upper branchlets, with peduncles 4–7 mm long and pedicels 2–7 mm long. These flowers are bisexual (perfect), strongly irregular, and have a 5-parted, minute calyx. The corolla is funnelform–unilabiate and 5-parted, with the tube split adaxially and lobes spreading, white with purple lines within, and glabrous externally but pubescent within. The tube measures 12–17 mm long, with 8–15 mm long lobes and winged margins. The stamens are roughly as long as the corolla tube, with anthers that open by longitudinal slits. The ovary is inferior and ovoid, leading to a drupaceous, 2-celled fruit that is dark purplish black, ovoid, measuring 5–7 mm long by 3–5 mm wide, and can be glabrous or sparsely pubescent, containing numerous seeds with oily endosperm. It is typically found in wet forests between (150–)700–1,400 meters.