''Goodia stenocarpa'' is a species of flowering plant in the family

Fabaceae Fabaceae () or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomen ...

and is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to inland Western Australia. It is a shrub with

trifoliate The following terms are used to describe leaf morphology in the description and taxonomy of plants. Leaves may be simple (that is, the leaf blade or 'lamina' is undivided) or compound (that is, the leaf blade is divided into two or more leaflets ...

leaves, the leaflets egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow or orange-yellow and red and purplish-brown, pea-like flowers.

Description

''Goodia stenocarpa'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to about and has moderately hairy new growth. Its leaves are trifoliate with egg-shaped leaflets, the narrower end towards the base, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are yellow or orange-yellow with a red and purplish-brown flare at the base, arranged in

raceme A raceme () or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate growth, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing flowers having short floral stalks along the shoots that bear the flowers. The oldest flowers grow close to the base and new flowers are ...

s up to long, each flower on a pedicel long with

bract In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves in size, color, shape or texture. They also lo ...

s about long and bracteoles long at the base. The

sepal A sepal () is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants). Usually green, sepals typically function as protection for the flower in bud, and often as support for the petals when in bloom., p. 106 Etymology The term ''sepalum'' ...

s are long and joined at the base, the lower three sepal lobes long. The standard petal is long and wide on a stalk long, the wings about long and purplish-brown, and the

keel The keel is the bottom-most longitudinal structural element of a watercraft, important for stability. On some sailboats, it may have a fluid dynamics, hydrodynamic and counterbalancing purpose as well. The keel laying, laying of the keel is often ...

about long and red. Flowering occurs from late winter to spring and the fruit is an oblong, brown pod long on a stalk long.

Taxonomy

''Goodia stenocarpa'' was first formally described in 2011 by Ian R. Thompson in the journal '' Muelleria'', from specimens collected west of Norseman in 1999. The

specific epithet In Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin gramm ...

(''stenocarpa'') means "narrow-fruited".

Distribution and habitat

This species grows in clay-loam over limestone in woodland between Lake King and Widgiemooltha north of Norseman, in the Coolgardie and Mallee bioregions of inland Western Australia.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q51044643 Mirbelioids Fabales of Australia stenocarpa Endemic flora of Western Australia Plants described in 2011