Goodenia mueckeana

Goodenia mueckeana is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to central Australia. It is an ascending, perennial herb with toothed, linear to egg-shaped leaves and racemes or thyrses of yellow flowers.

Description

Goodenia mueckeana is an ascending, perennial herb that typically grows to a height of and is covered with greyish hairs. The leaves are linear to egg-shaped with toothed or pinnatisect edges, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in racemes or thyrses up to long on a peduncle long, with leaf-like bracts and linear bracteoles about long. The individual flowers are more or less sessile with linear sepals about long. The corolla is yellow, long, the lower lobes long with wings about wide. Flowering mainly occurs from May to September and the fruit is an oval capsule, about long.

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia mueckeana was first formally described in 1873 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae.
The specific epithet honours Carl Muecke.

Distribution and habitat

This goodenia grows in hummock grassland on sandplains and sand dunes in central Western Australia, the south-west of the Northern Territory and the far north-west of South Australia.

Conservation status

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