Description: Shrubs.
Leaves alternate, 3-foliolate, petiolate; leaflets entire; stipules ovate, caducous.
Flowers in terminal or leaf-opposed racemes, each flower subtended by a single bract and a pair of bracteoles, all membranous, caducous. Calyx glabrous or pubescent, 2-lipped, upper 2 teeth united into a broad 2-toothed lip, lower 3 teeth narrow. Petals clawed; standard ± circular; wings narrow and longer than broad, incurved keel. Stamens monodelphous, sheath split on upper side. Ovary stipitate, 2–4-ovuled.
Pod long-stipitate, compressed, valves with thickened margins; seeds with a hooded aril.
Distribution and occurrence: World: 1–3 species, endemic Australia. Australia: all states except N.T.
Text by T. A. James
Taxon concept: Thompson IR (2011) A revision ot Goodis (Fabaceae: Bossiaeeae). Muelleria 29(2): 141-153.
| | Key to the species | |
| 1 | Standard face mostly purple-brown, grading to reddish orange at margins; wing tips purple-brown; seeds with aril attachment 0.5–1.2 mm long | Goodia medicaginea |
| Standard face mostly bright yellow; tips of wings yellow; seeds with aril attachment 1.2–2.5 mm long | 2 |
| 2 | Inflorescence axes, branchlets, and petioles ± glabrous when mature; stipules early caducous | Goodia lotifolia |
| Inflorescence axes, young branchlets and petioles with moderately dense indumentum when mature; stipules persistent
Back to 1 | Goodia macrocarpa |
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