Goodenia campestris

Goodenia campestris is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a low-lying herb with egg-shaped to lance-shaped stem leaves and racemes of yellowish flowers with purple veins.

Description

Goodenia campestris is a low-lying to ascending herb with more or less glabrous stems up to long. The leaves are mostly stem leaves that are egg-shaped to lance-shaped, long and wide, toothed and sessile. The flowers are arranged in racemes on the ends of the stems, up to long on a peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel long with leaf-like bracts at the base. The sepals are lance-shaped to narrow oblong, long, the petals yellowish with purple veins, long. The lower lobes of the corolla are about long with wings about wide. Flowering has been recorded in May and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule about long.

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia campestris was first formally described in 1990 by Roger Charles Carolin in the journal Telopea from material he collected near Timber Creek in 1968. The specific epithet means "pertaining to a field", referring to the grassy plains where this species grows.

Distribution and habitat

This goodenia grows in grassland on black soil plains in the Victoria Bonaparte region of the Northern Territory and Western Australia.

Conservation status

Goodenia campestris is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife, and as "data deficient" under the .