Goodenia phillipsiae

Goodenia phillipsiae is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to a restricted area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect to spreading, glabrous shrub with oblong to linear stem leaves and thyrses of yellow flowers.

Description
Goodenia phillipsiae is an erect to spreading suffruticose, glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of 30 cm. It has thick, oblong to linear leaves on the stems, up to 40 mm long and 3 mm wide. The flowers are arranged in thyrses up to about 200 mm long, with leaf-like bracts, each flower on a pedicel 15–30 mm long. The sepals are elliptic to lance-shaped, about 2 mm long, the petals yellow, 10–12 mm long and densely bearded at the base. The lower lobes of the corolla are about 6 mm long with wings up to 1.5 mm wide. Flowering occurs around November.

Taxonomy and naming
Goodenia phillipsiae was first formally described in 1990 Roger Charles Carolin in the journal Telopea from a specimen collected by Mary E. Phillips 19 mi east of Ravensthorpe in 1962. The specific epithet (phillipsiae) honours the collector of the type specimens.

Distribution
This goodenia is only known from the type location.

Conservation status
Goodenia phillipsiae is classified as "Priority Four" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife, meaning that is rare or near threatened.