Goodenia havilandii, commonly known as hill goodenia,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the drier parts of southern Australia. It is a prostrate to ascending, short-lived herb with sticky leaves and racemes of yellowish flowers with a brown centre.
Goodenia havilandii is a prostrate to ascending herb with stems up to long, densely covered with sticky glandular hairs. The leaves at the base of the plant are linear to lance-shaped, sometimes with teeth on the edges, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long with leaf-like bracts, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are elliptic, about long, the corolla yellowish with a brown centre, long with a few hairs on the inside. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings wide. Flowering occurs in most months and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule in diameter.[2] [3] [4]
Goodenia havilandii was first formally described in 1913 by Joseph Maiden and Ernst Betche in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.[5] [6] The specific epithet (havilandii) honours Archdeacon Francis Ernest Haviland (1859–1945), an amateur botanist.[7] In 1990, Roger Carolin selected the specimens collected by Haviland near Cobar in 1911 as the lectotype.[8]
This goodenia in drier areas of southern Australia, from the inland areas of New South Wales to the southern Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia.