Goodenia pusilla
Goodenia pusilla is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an ascending herb with lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves at the base of the plant and single yellow flowers with brownish markings. Description. "Goodenia pusilla" is an ascending herb that typically grows to a height of up to , sometimes forming stolons along the stems. The leaves at the base of the plant are lance-shaped to broadly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide on a short petiole. The  flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on a pedicel about long. The sepals are lance-shaped, about long, the corolla yellow with brownish markings and long. The lower lobes of the corolla are about long with wings up to wide. Flowering mainly occurs from October to December and the fruit is an elliptical to oval capsule long. Taxonomy and naming. This species was first formally described in 1845 by Willem Hendrik de Vriese in Lehmann's "Plantae Preissianae" and was given the name "Scaevola pusilla". In 1854, de Vriese changed the name to "Goodenia pusilla". The specific epithet ("pusilla ) means very small". Distribution and habitat. This goodenia grows in moist places in forest, woodland and swamp between Gingin and Albany in the south-west of Western Australia. Conservation status. "Goodenia pusilla" is classified as "not threatened" by the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.