Goodenia tenuiloba is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the north-west of Western Australia. It is an erect to ascending herb with linear to oblong leaves at the base of the plant and racemes of yellow flowers.
Goodenia tenuiloba is an erect to ascending herb that typically grows to a height of with sparsely hairy foliage. The leaves at the base of the plant are linear to oblong, long and wide, sometimes with lobes up to long and wide. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long with leaf-like bracts, each flower on a pedicel long. The corolla is yellow, the lower lobes long with wings wide, the upper lobes sometimes almost white. Flowering mainly occurs from May to September.[1]
Goodenia tenuiloba was first formally described in 1885 by Ferdinand von Mueller in the journal Southern Science Record from specimens collected "in the vicinity of Mt. Hale (C. Crossland)".[2] [3] The specific epithet (tenuiloba) means "thin-lobed".[4]
This goodenia grows in scrub mainly in the Pilbara region.
Goodenia tenuiloba is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.