Goodenia minutiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is an annual herb with linear to lance-shaped leaves, and loose groups of tiny white or purplish flowers.
Goodenia minutiflora is an annual herb that typically grows to a height of up to and has adventitious roots. The leaves are mostly arranged at the base of the plant, linear to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in loose groups up to long near the ends of the stems on a peduncles long. Each flower is on a pedicel long with linear bracts up to long and bracteoles up to long. The sepals are lance-shaped, about long, the corolla white to purplish, long. The lower lobes of the corolla are about long with wings absent or very narrow. Flowering mainly occurs from March to May and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule about in diameter.[1]
Goodenia minutiflora was first formally described in 1874 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected by Thomas Gulliver between the Norman and Gilbert Rivers in Queensland.[2] [3] The specific epithet (minutiflora) means "very small-flowered".[4]
This goodenia mainly grows on the southern shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria in Queensland and the Northern Territory.[5]
Goodenia minutiflora is classified as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992 and as "data deficient" under the Northern Territory Government Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1976.[6]