Goodenia rotundifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a prostrate to erect perennial herb with more or less round, toothed leaves and racemes of yellow flowers.
Goodenia rotundifolia is prostrate to erect perennial herb that typically grows to a height of up to . The leaves are mostly at the base of the plant, more or less round to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide with toothed, sometimes wavy edges. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long on a peduncle long with leaf-like bracts, each flower on a pedicel up to long with linear bracteoles about long. The sepals are linear to lance-shaped, long and the petals are yellow, long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings wide. Flowering mainly occurs from September to May and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule in diameter.[1] [2]
Goodenia rotundifolia was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.[3] [4] The specific epithet (rotundifolia) means "circular-leaved".[5]
This goodenia grows in woodland and forest on the coast and tablelands from southern Queensland to the Hunter Valley in New South Wales.