Goodenia viscidula is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is an erect annual herb with sticky, hairy foliage, egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and thyrses or panicles of purplish-blue flowers.
Goodenia viscidula is an erect annual herb that typically grows to a height of up to, is covered with sticky, hairy foliage and has adventitious roots. The leaves at the base of the plant are egg-shaped to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide, sometimes with inconspicuously toothed edges. The flowers are arranged in loose thyrses or panicles up to long on a peduncle up to long, with linear bracts, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are lance-shaped, about long and the petals are purplish-blue and long. The lower lobes of the corolla are about long with wings about wide. Flowering occurs from March to May.[1] [2]
Goodenia viscidula was first formally described in 1980 by Roger Charles Carolin in the journal Telopea from a specimen he collected near Borroloola in 1974.[3] The specific epithet (viscidula) means "somewhat sticky".
This goodenia grows in seasonally damp place in northern parts of the Northern Territory and near the Gulf of Carpentaria in Queensland.[4]
Goodenia viscidula is classified as of "least concern" under the Northern Territory Government Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1976 and the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.[5]