Goodenia albiflora, commonly known as white goodenia,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and endemic to South Australia. It is a small, erect shrub with ridged stems, elliptic to egg-shaped, cauline leaves, racemes of white flowers with leaf-like bracteoles at the base, and oval fruit.
Goodenia albiflora is an erect, glaucous shrub that typically grows to a height of and has ridged stems. The leaves are cauline, elliptic to egg-shaped, long and wide with wavy or serrated edges. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long on a peduncle long with lance-shaped, leaf-like bracteoles about long at the base, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are lance-shaped, long and the corolla is white, long with hairs inside. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings wide. Flowering mainly occurs from October to January and the fruit is an oval capsule about long.[2]
Goodenia albiflora was first formally described in 1847 by Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal in the journal Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde.[3] [4] The specific epithet (albiflora) means "white-flowered".[5]
White goodenia grows in stony soil on steep slopes in woodland from the Eyre Peninsula to the Flinders Ranges and Mount Lofty Ranges of South Australia.