Prostrate or ascending herb to 40 cm long, often glabrous. Basal leaves linear to oblong-elliptic in outline, dentate to pinnatisect with narrow, acute lobes or rarely entire, with lamina 2-10 cm long, 1-10 mm wide (including lobes); cauline leaves linear, entire or nearly so. Flowers in racemes to 30 cm long, or subumbels; bracts leaf-like; pedicel 10-30 mm long, articulate; bracteoles absent. Sepals lanceolate to oblong, 1-2 mm long. Corolla 5-9 mm long, hairs inside in rows confluent basally, without enations, auriculate; abaxial lobes 2-3 mm long; wings c. 0.5 mm wide. Indusium broadly oblong, 1 mm long. Ovules 4-8. Fruit globular, 4 mm diam. Seeds orbicular, c. 2.5 mm diam., glossy, blackish brown, reticulate; wing c. 0.5 mm wide.

Flowers chiefly May-Oct.

Occurs in the north Kimberley, W.A., and Arnhem Land, N.T.

W.A.: c. 2.5 km W of Lake Argyle turnoff, Kununurra-Timber Creek road, A.C.Beauglehole (AD); c. 80 km N of Turkey Creek Police Stn, R.A.Perry & M.Lazarides 2518 (AD, CANB, DNA, MEL). N.T.: Mudginberri Stn, c. 3 km W of homestead, R.C.Carolin 6905 (SYD); c. 16 km W of Timber Creek, N.Byrnes NB747 (DNA); c. 48 km E of Newry, 10 May 1959, G.Chippendale (DNA).

Carpentaria Island 5 [Morgans Island, N.T.], 20-21 Jan. 1803, R.Brown ; lecto: BM, fide R.C.Carolin, Telopea 3: 546 (1990); isolecto: K, MEL, P.

Corolla yellow with purplish lines, and glabrous outside; ovary septum c. 1/4 length of ovary; indusium with long purplish hairs on undersurface. Similar to Goodenia pinnatifida , differing in the narrower leaf lobes, and the lack of a dense beard inside the corolla.

Data derived from Flora of Australia Volume 35 (1992), a product of ABRS, ©Commonwealth of Australia