Goodia stenocarpa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland Western Australia. It is a shrub with trifoliate leaves, the leaflets egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow or orange-yellow and red and purplish-brown, pea-like flowers.
Goodia stenocarpa is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to about and has moderately hairy new growth. Its leaves are trifoliate with egg-shaped leaflets, the narrower end towards the base, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are yellow or orange-yellow with a red and purplish-brown flare at the base, arranged in racemes up to long, each flower on a pedicel long with bracts about long and bracteoles long at the base. The sepals are long and joined at the base, the lower three sepal lobes long. The standard petal is long and wide on a stalk long, the wings about long and purplish-brown, and the keel about long and red. Flowering occurs from late winter to spring and the fruit is an oblong, brown pod long on a stalk long.[1]
Goodia stenocarpa was first formally described in 2011 by Ian R. Thompson in the journal Muelleria, from specimens collected west of Norseman in 1999.[2] The specific epithet (stenocarpa) means "narrow-fruited".[3]
This species grows in clay-loam over limestone in woodland between Lake King and Widgiemooltha north of Norseman, in the Coolgardie and Mallee bioregions of inland Western Australia.