Goodenia bellidifolia

Goodenia bellidifolia was first formally described in 1794 by James Edward Smith in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.^[5][6]

In 1981 Surrey Wilfrid Laurance Jacobs and J. Pickard described two subspecies, Goodenia belliodifolia subsp. A^[7] and the autonym Goodenia bellidifolia Sm. bellidifolia in Plants of New South Wales.^[8] In 1990, subspecies A was formalised as Goodenia bellidifolia subsp. argentea by Roger Charles Carolin in the journal Telopea^[9][10] and both names are accepted at the Australian Plant Census:

• Goodenia bellidifolia subsp. argentea Carolin^[11] has petals that are usually lemon-yellow with cottony white hairs on the back and more or less spherical fruit usually about 2 mm (0.079 in) long containing very dark brown to black seeds;^[12]
• Goodenia bellidifolia Carolin subsp. bellidifolia^[13] has petals that are usually orange to yellow with coarse yellow hairs on the back and oval fruit usually about 4 mm (0.16 in) long containing brown seeds.^[14]

Daisy goodenia grows in heath and forest from the Moreton and Wide Bay districts of Queensland, through eastern New South Wales and as far west as Dubbo to the Genoa area in the far north-east of Victoria.^[2][4][10] Subspecies argentea occurs in the northern part of the species' distribution, north from near Wingham^[12] and subspecies bellidifolia south from Glen Innes.^[14]