Goodenia katabudjar

Goodenia katabudjar is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to a restricted area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is a hairy perennial sub-shrub with egg-shaped stem-leaves and blue, pink or white flowers.

Description

Goodenia katabudjar is a hairy perennial sub-shrub that typically grows to a height of. The leaves are arranged along the stem and are egg-shaped, long and wide. The flowers are usually blue to pink sometimes white, long and wide. The sepals are linear, long and wide and the corolla has wings wide. Flowering occurs in December and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule about in diameter.

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia katabudjar was first formally described in 1997 by Raymond Jeffrey Cranfield and Leigh William Sage in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected by Sage near Wandering in 1996. The specific epithet is derived from Noongar words meaning "hill" and "ground", referring to the habit of this species and its hillside habitat.

Distribution and habitat

This goodenia grows in upland areas of open wandoo woodland in the Jarrah Forest biogeographic region of south-western Western Australia.

Conservation status

Goodenia katabudjar is classified as "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat.