Goodenia durackiana is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to north-western Australia. It is an erect to low-lying herb with elliptic to oblong stem leaves with coarse teeth on the edges, and racemes of yellow flowers.
Goodenia durackiana is an erect to low-lying herb that typically grows to a height of . The leaves are mostly arranged on the stem, elliptic to oblong, long and wide, and coarsely toothed on the edges. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long with leaf-like bracts long at the base, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are narrow elliptic, about long, the corolla yellow, about long. The lower lobes of the corolla are about long with wings wide. Flowering mostly occurs from March to May and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule in diameter.[1] [2]
Goodenia durackiana was first formally described in 1990 by Roger Charles Carolin in the journal Telopea from material collected by Michael Lazarides at the Kimberley Research Station in 1963.[3] The specific epithet (durackiana) honours Kim Durack who collected specimens of this species in 1945.[4]
This goodenia grows in grasslands on black, cracking soils in the north-eastern Kimberley region of Western Australia and north-western Northern Territory.[5]
Goodenia durackiana is classified as "Priority One" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife, meaning that it is known from only one or a few locations which are potentially at risk.[6]