Goodenia micrantha

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Goodenia micrantha is a small flowering plant in the Goodeniaceae family, native to southwestern Australia. It grows as a prostrate to upright herb with four-sided stems up to 25 cm long. The leaves are at the base of the plant, narrow and flat: 10–50 mm long and 0.4–1 mm wide.

Flowers appear in long clusters up to 250 mm long, with leaf-like bracts along the stem and each flower on a stalk 8–15 mm long. The sepals are about 1 mm long, and the petals are yellowish with a brown center, 1.5–2.5 mm long. The lower lobes of the petals are about 1 mm long with small wings 0.1–0.2 mm wide. Flowering mostly occurs from September to December. The fruit is a spherical capsule about 2.5–3 mm in diameter.

Taxonomy: The plant was first described in 1874 by Ferdinand von Mueller as a variety of Goodenia filiformis. It received several names through history and was finally named Goodenia micrantha in 1990 by Roger Carolin, based on an unpublished manuscript by William Hensley. The name micrantha means "small-flowered."

Habitat and distribution: It grows in winter-wet depressions and on granite outcrops, with scattered populations across southwestern Western Australia. A single small population has been recorded from the western end of Kangaroo Island in South Australia.

Conservation: It is classified as not threatened in Western Australia.