near Newdegate, W.A., 18 Nov. 1931, W.E. Blackall 1364; holo: PERTH.

Erect, perennial herb to 30 cm high, glabrous or glaucous. Basal leaves linear to oblanceolate, thick, with lamina 20–30 mm long, 2–4 mm wide; upper leaves smaller. Raceme to 20 cm long; bracts leaf-like, smaller; peduncles 8–20 mm long; bracteoles linear-lanceolate, 2.5–3 mm long; pedicel mostly 5–10 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, 3–4 mm long, acute. Corolla blue, c. 15 mm long, almost glabrous inside, with obscure enations, indistinctly auriculate; abaxial lobes 6–7 mm long; wings 2–2.5 mm wide. Indusium broadly obovate, 1.5 mm long. Ovules c. 60. Fruit ovoid, 8–9 mm long; valves often splitting to base. Seeds elliptic, 2 mm long, colliculate, brown.

Flowers Oct.–Jan.

Native.

Occurs in south-western W.A. from Mullewa to Lake Grace.

Grows in gravelly and sandy soil.

W.A.: Bendering, C.A. Gardner 2026 (PERTH); c. 11 km E of Hyden, F. Lullfitz L3821 (PERTH); c. 25 km N of Lake Biddy, W.E. Blackall 1364 (PERTH); Tarin Rock, J.S. Beard 2150 (PERTH); c. 15 km W of Lake Grace, 29 Oct. 1962, M.E. Phillips (CBG, PERTH).

Distinguished from most other members of the subsection by the lack of hairs on the external parts, except in the leaf axils. Close to Goodenia pterigosperma which has wider, obtuse sepals; and from G. trichophylla which has viscid varnish on the young leaves.

R. Erickson et al., Fl. Pl. W. Australia 126, t. 392 (1973) as Goodenia brevisepala, nom. nud.; A.S. George (ed.), Flora of Australia 35: 189, fig. 48D (1992).

Carolin, R.C. (1992). Goodenia (Goodeniaceae), in George, A.S. et al. (eds), Flora of Australia 35: 149–166. (Australian Government Publishing Service: Canberra).

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