Goodenia nigrescens

Goodenia nigrescens is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is an erect herb with narrow oblong to lance-shaped leaves on the stems and racemes of orange-yellow flowers.

Description

Goodenia nigrescens is an erect herb that typically grows to a height of and is more or less glaucous. The leaves are mostly scattered along the stems and are narrow oblong to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base and usually toothed or lobed, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long on a peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel long with leaf-like bracts and linear bracteoles long. The sepals are lance-shaped to elliptic, long, the petals orange-yellow and about long. The lower lobes of the corolla are about long with wings about wide. Flowering mainly occurs from May to August and the fruit is a compressed oval capsule long.

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia nigrescens was first formally described in 1990 Roger Charles Carolin in the journal Telopea from specimens collected in 1960 on Banka Banka Station by George Chippendale. The specific epithet means "becoming black", referring to the tendency of the plant to turn black when dried.

Distribution and habitat

This goodenia grows in grey and black soils on the Barkly Tableland, and in Queensland.

Conservation status

Goodenia nigrescens is classified as "data deficient" under the but as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.