Goodenia atriplexifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a woody sub-shrub covered with woolly hairs, with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with toothed or serrated edges, and leafy spikes of cream-coloured flowers.
Goodenia atriplexifolia is a woody subs-shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and is densely covered with fine, white, woolly hairs. The leaves are elliptic to egg-shaped, long, wide and sessile with toothed or serrated esges. The flowers are arranged in spikes long with leaf-like bracts at the base of each of up to three flowers. The sepals are triangular, long, the petals cream-coloured, long, the lower lobes long with wings wide. Flowering occurs from June to September and the fruit is an elliptic to more or less spherical capsule long and wide.[1]
Goodenia atriplexifolia was first formally described in 2002 by Ailsa E. Holland and T.P. Boyle in the journal Austrobaileya from specimens collected south of Longreach in 2001.[2] The specific epithet (atriplexifolia) is a reference to a similarity of the leaves to those in the genus Atriplex.
This goodenia grows in shrubland and woodland with a Triodia understorey between Opalton and the Grey Range in central Queensland.
Goodenia atriplexifolia is classed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.[3]