Goodenia kakadu

Goodenia kakadu is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the Northern Territory. It is a prostrate herb with narrow oblong leaves in rosettes on stolons, and small dark red flowers arranged singly in leaf axils.

Description

Goodenia kakadu is a prostrate herb with stems up to long. The leaves are narrow oblong, up to wide, arranged in rosettes on stolons. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on a pedicel up to long. The sepals are lance-shaped to egg-shaped, long, the corolla dark red and up to long. The lobes of the corolla are equal, about long and lack wings. Flowering mainly occurs from April to May and the fruit is more or less spherical capsule up to in diameter.

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia kakadu was first formally described in 1990 by Roger Charles Carolin in the journal Telopea from material collected in 1980 in Kakadu National Park by Lyndley Craven. The specific epithet is a reference to the type location.

Distribution and habitat

This goodenia grows in shady, seasonally inundated areas in the northern parts of the Northern Territory.

Conservation status

Goodenia kakaduis classified as "data deficient" under the .