Goodenia splendida
Goodenia splendida is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is an erect perennial herb with lance-shaped leaves mostly at the base of the plant, and racemes or thyrses of blue or purple flowers. Description. "Goodenia splendida" is an erect, perennial herb that typically grows to a height of about and has sticky foliage. The leaves are arranged at the base of the plant and are lance-shaped, long and wide on a petiole up to long. The flowers are arranged in racemes or thyrses up to long on  a peduncle long with linear to lance-shaped bracts long and smaller bracteoles. Each flower is on a pedicel long, the sepals linear to lance-shaped with lobes long. The petals are blue or purple, hairy and long, the lower lobes long with wings wide. Flowering mainly occurs from March to October and the fruit is an elliptic capsule long and wide. Taxonomy and naming. "Goodenia splendida" was first formally described in 2002 by Ailsa E. Holland and T.P. Boyle in the journal "Austrobaileya" from specimens collected near Yarrowmere Station in 1983. The specific epithet ("splendida") refers to the showy  foliage and flowers. Distribution and habitat. This goodenia grows in woodland and shrubland with species of "Eucalyptus" and "Melaleuca" between the White Mountains National Park and Lake Buchanan in central eastern Queensland. Conservation status. "Goodenia splendida" is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government "Nature Conservation Act 1992".