Goodenia lancifolia, commonly known as scruffy goodenia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the far south-west corner of Western Australia. It is a perennial herb with linear to narrow egg-shaped at the base and stem-clasping, lance-shaped to egg-shaped stem-leaves and blue flowers with a white centre.
Goodenia lancifolia is a hairy perennial herb that typically grows to a height of . The leaves at the base of the plant are linear to narrow egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide. The stem-leaves are more or less stem-clasping, lance-shaped to egg-shaped, long and wide, sometimes with toothed or lobed edges. The flowers are arranged in a raceme up to long, on peduncles long, each flower on a hairy pedicel up to long. The sepals are narrow egg-shaped, long and about wide and the corolla is blue with a white centre, long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings wide. Flowering mostly occurs in January and the fruit is an elliptic to oval capsule.[1]
Goodenia lancifolia was first formally described in 2000 by Leigh William Sage and Raymond Jeffrey Cranfield in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected near Pemberton in 2000.[2] The specific epithet (lancifolia) means "lance-leaved".[3]
This goodenia grows in winter-wet swamps and on the edge of lakes in the far south-west of south-western Western Australia.
Goodenia lancifolia is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.