Goodenia prostrata

Goodenia prostrata is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to inland parts of Western Australia. It is a prostrate herb with toothed, lance-shaped leaves at the base of the plant and racemes of yellow flowers with a brownish centre.

Description

Goodenia prostrata is a prostrate herb with stems up to long with tufts of hair in the leaf axils. The leaves at the base of the plant are lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long, with leaf-like bracts, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are narrow elliptic, about long, the petals yellow with a brownish base and long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings about wide. Flowering mainly occurs from May to September.

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia prostrata was first formally described in 1990 by Roger Charles Carolin in the journal Telopea from a specimen he collected from Roy Hill in 1970. The specific epithet refers to the prostrate habit of this goodenia.

Distribution

This goodenia grows in sandy soil in the Pilbara and nearby regions of Western Australia.

Conservation status

Goodenia prostrata is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.