Goodenia xanthotricha

Goodenia xanthotricha, commonly known as yellow-haired goodenia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to a restricted area in the southwest of Western Australia. It is a herb-like shrub with sticky foliage, linear to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, racemes of blue flowers, and cylindrical to oval fruit.

Description

Goodenia xanthotricha is a herb-like shrub that typically grows to a height of up to, its foliage covered with glandular hairs and sticky. The leaves are linear to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide with toothed edges. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long on a peduncle long with leaf-like bracts and narrow egg-shaped bracteoles long. Each flower is on a pedicel about long with narrow oblong sepals long and a blue corolla about long. The lower lobes of the corolla are about long with wings about wide. Flowering mainly occurs from November to February and the fruit is a cylindrical to oval capsule long.

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia xanthotricha was first formally described in 1854 by Willem Hendrik de Vriese in the journal Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van de Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen te Haarlem. The specific epithet means "yellow hair".

Distribution and habitat

Yellow-haired goodenia grows on gravelly hills near Hill River in the Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.

Conservation status

This goodenia is classified as "Priority Two" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife, meaning that it is poorly known and from only one or a few locations.