Goodenia calcarata

Goodenia calcarata, commonly known as streaked goodenia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is an erect, annual herb with toothed egg-shaped to oblong leaves, racemes of white, cream-coloured or pink to mauve flowers with brownish markings, and oval fruit.
Description.
"Goodenia calcarata" is an erect, glaucous annual herb that typically grows to a height of . The leaves are egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, to oblong or lyre-shaped, toothed long and wide on a petiole up to long. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long on a peduncle long with linear bracts at the base, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are narrow elliptic, about long and the petals are white, cream-coloured or pink to mauve and long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings wide. Flowering occurs from June to December and the fruit is an oval capsule long.
Taxonomy and naming.
Streaked goodenia was first formally described in 1853 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name "Picrophyta calcarata" in the journal "Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde". In 1867, von Mueller changed the name to "Goodenia calcarata" in "Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae".
Distribution and habitat.
"Goodenia calcarata" grows in stony places in South Australia, the far south of the Northern Territory, west of Tibooburra in New South Wales and in south western Queensland.
Conservation status.
"Goodenia calcarata" is classified as "near threatened" under the Northern Territory Government Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1976.