Goodenia filiformis, commonly known as thread-leaved goodenia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to near-coastal areas of south-western Western Australia. It is an erect to ascending herb with cylindrical to narrow linear leaves at the base of the plant and racemes of yellow flowers.
Goodenia filiformis is an erect to ascending herb that typically grows to a height of with cylindrical to narrow linear leaves long and wide at the base of the plant. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long with leaf-like bracts on the base, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are egg-shaped, about long, the corolla yellow, about long. The lower lobes of the corolla are about long with wings up to wide. Flowering occurs from November to December or January.[1]
Goodenia filiformis was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.[2] [3] The specific epithet (filiformis) means "thread-shaped".[4]
This goodenia grows in winter-wet places in near-coastal areas between Princess Royal Harbour and West Cape Howe in the south-west of Western Australia.
Goodenia filiformis is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.