Goodenia strangfordii, commonly known as wide-leaved goodenia in the Northern Territory,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is an erect herb with narrow elliptic to lance-shaped stem leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and racemes of yellow flowers.
Goodenia strangfordii is an erect, spreading herb that typically grows to a height of up to . The stem leaves are elliptic to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long wide. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long with leaf-like bracts, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are lance-shaped, long and the corolla is yellow, long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings up to wide. Flowering mainly occurs from May to October.[2]
Goodenia strangfordii was first formally described in 1867 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae.[3] [4] The specific epithet (strangfordii) honours Percy Smythe, the 8th Viscount Strangford.[5]
This goodenia grows in heavy, seasonally wet soil in the Northern Territory, Queensland and the far north-east of Western Australia.
Goodenia strangfordii is classified as of "least concern" in the Northern Territory and Queensland[6] but as "Priority One" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife, meaning that it is known from only one or a few locations which are potentially at risk.[7]