Goodenia coronopifolia

Goodenia coronopifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to north-western Australia. It is a herb with mostly linear leaves, those at the base of the plant divided with narrow segments, racemes of yellow flowers with brownish-purple markings, and more or less spherical fruit.

Description

Goodenia coronopifolia is a prostrate or ascending, often glabrous herb with stems long. The leaves at the base of the plant are long and wide, linear to oblong and toothed or divided, but the leaves on the stem are linear with smooth edges. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long with leaf-like bracts at the base, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are lance-shaped to oblong, long and the petals yellow with brownish-purple marking and long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings about wide. Flowering mainly occurs from May to October and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule about in diameter.

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia coronopifolia was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. The specific epithet means "Coronopus-leaved".

Distribution

This species of Goodenia grows in northern parts of the Northern Territory and Western Australia.

Conservation status

Goodenia coronopifolia is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife and as of "least concern" under the .