Goodenia lamprosperma

Goodenia lamprosperma is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is an annual or perennial herb with linear to lance-shaped leaves sometimes with teeth on the edges, and racemes of yellow flowers.

Description

Goodenia lamprosperma is an annual or perennial herb that typically grows to a height of. The leaves are linear to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide, sometimes with teeth on the edges. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long on peduncles up to long with linear bracteoles long, the individual flowers on pedicels long. The sepals are lance-shaped to narrow oblong, long, the corolla yellow, long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings wide. Flowering mainly occurs from April to August and the fruit is a cylindrical capsule long.

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia lamprosperma was first formally described in 1859 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae. The specific epithet means "shining-seeded".

Distribution and habitat

This goodenia grows in seasonally wet places, in swamps and near watercourses in north-western Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland.

Conservation status

Goodenia lamprosperma is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife and as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992 and the .