Goodenia leptoclada, commonly known as thin-stemmed goodenia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the extreme south-west of Western Australia. It is an ascending perennial herb with lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base and racemes of blue flowers.
Goodenia leptoclada is a ascending herb that typically grows to a height of up to . The leaves are lance-shaped to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide, sometimes with blunt teeth on the edges. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long on a peduncle long with leaf-like bracts and linear bracteoles long. The sepals are lance-shaped, about long and the corolla is blue and long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings wide. Flowering occurs from November to January and the fruit is more or less spherical capsule about in diameter.[1]
Goodenia laevis was first formally described in 1868 by George Bentham in Flora Australiensis from specimens collected by James Drummond.[2] [3] The specific epithet (leptoclada) means "thin-stemmed".[4]
Thin-stemmed goodenia grows in sandy soil in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren biogeographic regions in the extreme south-west of Western Australia.
Goddenia leptoclada is classified as "not threatened" by the Department of Environment and Conservation (Western Australia).