Goodenia angustifolia

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Goodenia angustifolia is a flowering plant in the Goodeniaceae family, native to northern Australia. It is a low-growing or slightly upright herb with smooth, glaucous leaves that are needle-shaped but channelled.

The leaves are typically 50–80 mm long and about 0.5 mm wide, with some on the stem clustered. Flowers are bright yellow and arranged in racemes up to 100 mm long, on a peduncle 5–10 mm long. Each flower sits on a pedicel about 1 mm long and has leaf-like bracteoles at the base. The sepals are lance-shaped and 2.5–3 mm long; the corolla is 10–12 mm long and hairy inside. The lower lobes of the corolla are about 6–7 mm long with wings about 2 mm wide. Flowering has been observed in August.

Goodenia angustifolia was first formally described in 1980 by Roger Charles Carolin in Telopea, from material collected near Nockatunga in 1964. The name angustifolia means “narrow-leaved.”

This plant grows on stony downs near its type location in Queensland, and has also been found along roadsides and in other arid areas of the Northern Territory.