Goodenia fascicularis, commonly known as silky goodenia,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is widely distributed in eastern continental Australia. It is an ascending perennial herb with linear to egg-shaped leaves and racemes of yellow flowers.
Goodenia fascicularis is an ascending perennial herb that typically grows to a height of and has hairy foliage. It has linear to egg-shaped leaves long, wide at the base of the plant and smaller leaves on the stem. The flowers are arranged in leafy racemes up to long on a peduncle long. The sepals are lance-shaped, long, the corolla yellow, long. The lower lobe of the corolla is long with wings wide. Flowering occurs in most months and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule in diameter.[2] [3] [4] [5]
Goodenia fascicularis was first formally described in 1890 by Ferdinand von Mueller and Ralph Tate in the Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia from material collected in the Basedow Range (near Imanpa) in the Northern Territory, during the Tietkens expedition to Central Australia.[6] [7] The specific epithet (fascicularis) means "belonging to a small bundle".[8]
This goodenia grows in a wide range of habitats including scrub, woodland and grassland west of Tamworth in New South Wales, in northern and north-western Victoria, and in Queensland, the Northern Territory and South Australia.