Goodenia dyeri is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an ascending herb with egg-shaped, toothed leaves at the base of the plant, with solitary yellow flowers in the leaf axils.
Goodenia dyeri is an ascending herb that typically grows to a height of with soft, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are mostly arranged at the base of the plant and are egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base and toothed or lyre-shaped, long and wide. The flowers are arranged singly in the axils of the leaves at the base of the plant with linear bracteoles about long, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are linear to lance-shaped, about long, the corolla yellow long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings about wide. Flowering occurs from August to November and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule in diameter.[1]
Goodenia dyeri was first formally described in 1912 by Kurt Krause in Adolf Engler's journal Das Pflanzenreich from material collected near the railway between Cunderdin and Dedari in 1903.[2] [3] The specific epithet (dyeri) honours William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 1885–1905.[4]
This goodenia grows on undulating plains between Cowcowing and Kalgoorlie in the south-west of Western Australia.
Goodenia dyeri is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.