Goodenia rosea

Goodenia rosea, commonly known as pink velleia,[2] is a species in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to inland areas of Western Australia.

Goodenia rosea is an annual herb, with prostrate to ascending flowering stems, the leaves lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, to more or less toothed or pinnatisect.

[2][3][4] This species was first formally described in 1899 by Spencer Le Marchant Moore who gave it the name Velleia rosea in the Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany.

[5][6] In 2020, Kelly Anne Shepherd and others transferred it to the genus Goodenia as G. rosea in Australian Systematic Botany.

[7][8] Goodenia rosea occurs in the area between Kalgoorlie, Cowcowing and near Geraldton in the Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Coolgardie, Gascoyne, Geraldton Sandplains, Great Victoria Desert, Murchison, Nullarbor and Yalgoo IBRA regions of inland Western Australia.

Habit near Paynes Find