Goodenia subsolana is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a perennial herb with toothed, lance-shaped leaves, yellow flowers on an ascending to low-lying flower stem, and more or less spherical fruit containing round to elliptic seeds.
Goodenia subsolana is a perennial herb with toothed, lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, long and up to wide. The flowers are arranged on an ascending to low-lying flowering stem up to tall, with bracteoles up to long and free from each other. The lower sepal is egg-shaped to elliptic, sometimes heart-shaped, long and the petals are yellowish, about long, with wings about wide and attached to the base of the lower sepal. The fruit is a more or less spherical capsule containing spherical to elliptic seeds about in diameter.[1] [2]
This species was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown who gave it the name Velleia pubescens in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.[3] [4] In 2020, Kelly Anne Shepherd and others transferred it to the genus Goodenia but the name G. pubescens was unavailable as it was preoccupied by a species described by Sieber ex Spreng., now known as Scaevola albida.[5] Shepherd named the new species G. subsolana. The specific apithet (subsolana) means "eastern-oriental", referring to the distribution of this species near coastal habitats of Queensland, in eastern Australia.[6]
Goodenia subsolana is found near Shoalwater Bay and around Herberton in eastern Queensland.