Goodenia kakadu

Goodenia kakadu is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the Northern Territory. It is a prostrate herb with narrow oblong leaves in rosettes on stolons, and small dark red flowers arranged singly in leaf axils.

Description
Goodenia kakadu is a prostrate herb with stems up to 20 cm long. The leaves are narrow oblong, up to 3 mm wide, arranged in rosettes on stolons. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on a pedicel up to 12 mm long. The sepals are lance-shaped to egg-shaped, 0.5–1.5 mm long, the corolla dark red and up to 2 mm long. The lobes of the corolla are equal, about 1 mm long and lack wings. Flowering mainly occurs from April to May and the fruit is more or less spherical capsule up to 0.4 mm in diameter.

Taxonomy and naming
Goodenia kakadu was first formally described in 1990 by Roger Charles Carolin in the journal Telopea from material collected in 1980 in Kakadu National Park by Lyndley Craven. The specific epithet (kakadu) is a reference to the type location.

Distribution and habitat
This goodenia grows in shady, seasonally inundated areas in the northern parts of the Northern Territory.

Conservation status
Goodenia kakaduis classified as "data deficient" under the Northern Territory Government Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1976.