Goodenia stobbsiana is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the north-west of Western Australia. It is a sticky, much-branched, perennial subshrub with egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base and thyrses of blue flowers.
Goodenia stobbsiana is a much-branched perennial subshrub that typically grows to a height of up to with sticky foliage. The leaves at the base of the plant and on the stems are egg-shaped to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide, sometimes with teeth on the edges. The flowers are arranged in loose thyrses up to long on a peduncle up to long with leaf-like bracts and linear bracteoles up to long, each flower on a pedicel up to long. The corolla is blue with lobes up to long. Flowering mainly occurs from March to October.[1]
Goodenia stobbsiana was first formally described in 1878 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected by John Forrest.[2] [3] The specific epithet (stobbsiana) honours Johns Stobbs (184–1882), a Presbyterian minister who assisted von Mueller.[4]
This goodenia grows in stony soil, often in disturbed or burned areas, mainly in the Pilbara region of north-western Australia.
Goodenia stobbsiana is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.