Goodenia suffrutescens is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to inland areas of north-eastern Western Australia. It is an undershrub with low-lying branches, toothed, lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and thyrses of blue flowers.
Goodenia suffrutescens is a subshrub up to tall, with woody, low-lying branches and sticky foliage. The leaves are more or less clustered at the base of the plant and are lance-shaped to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide with toothed edges. The flowers are arranged in thyrses up to long on peduncles up to long with leaf-like bracts and egg-shaped bracteoles long. Each flower is on a pedicel up to long. The sepals are lance-shaped, about long, the petals blue, long. The lower lobes of the corolla are about long with wings about wide. Flowering occurs around August and the fruit is a cylindrical capsule about long.[1] [2]
Goodenia suffrutescens was first formally described in 1980 by Roger Charles Carolin in the journal Telopea from material he collected by on Billiluna Station in 1970.[3] The specific epithet (suffrutescens) refers to the sub-shrub form of the plant.
This goodenia grows on laterite pavements on the north-western edge of the Tanami Desert in north-eastern Western Australia.
Goodenia suffrutescens is classified 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.[4]