Goodenia vernicosa, commonly known as wavy goodenia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is an erect shrub with sticky, later varnished foliage, elliptic to lance-shaped, sometimes toothed leaves and racemes or thyrses of yellow flowers.
Goodenia vernicosa is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to with foliage that is sticky at first, later varnished. The leaves are narrow elliptic to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide, the edges sometimes toothed. The flowers are arranged in racemes or thyrses up to long on a peduncle long, with leaf-like bracts and linear bracteoles long, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are linear, long, the petals yellow and long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings up to wide. Flowering mainly occurs from September to January and the fruit is an oval or cylindrical capsule long.[1] [2]
Goodenia vernicosa was first formally described in 1919 by John McConnell Black in Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia from specimens collected by Ernest Ising on Mount Patawarta near Moolooloo.[3] [4] The specific epithet (vernicosa) means "varnished".[5]
This goodenia occurs in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia.