Goodenia centralis
Goodenia centralis is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to central Australia. It is a prostrate, annual herb with coarsely toothed, spatula-shaped to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and racemes of yellow flowers with purple veins. Description. "Goodenia centralis" is a prostrate annual herb with more or less glabrous stems up to long. The leaves are spatula-shaped to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide and coarsely-toothed. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long on a peduncle  long, each flower on a pedicel long with leaf-like bracteoles long at the base. The sepals are about long, the petals yellow with purple veins, long. The lower lobes of the corolla are about long with wings about wide. Flowering mainly occurs from June to September and the fruit is an elliptic capsule about long. Taxonomy and naming. "Goodenia centralis" was first formally described in 1980 by Roger Charles Carolin in the journal "Telopea" from material collected by George Chippendale near Irving Creek in the Petermann Ranges in the Northern Territory in 1958. The specific epithet ("centralis") refers to  the central Australian habitat. Distribution and habitat. This goodenia grows in woodland and tussock grassland on sand in the deserts of central-eastern Western Australia, south-western Northern Territory and northern South Australia. Conservation status. "Goodenia centralis" is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife, and as "least concern" under the Northern Territory Government Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1976.