Goodenia caroliniana

Goodenia caroliniana is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae, and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a perennial herb with egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves with toothed edges and the narrower end toward the base, and erect flowering stems up to high and yellow flowers.

Description

Goodenia caroliniana is a more or less glabrous perennial herb with egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves with toothed edges and the narrower end toward the base, long and wide. The flowers are borne on an ascending to erect flowering stem up to long with bracteoles up to long at the base. The lower sepal is heart-shaped, and the petals are long and hairy, with wings wide almost to the base of the lower sepal. Flowering mainly occurs from August to April and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule containing seeds wide.

Taxonomy

This species was first described in 1810 by Robert Brown who gave it the name Velleia lyrata in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. In 2020, Kelly Anne Shepherd and others transferred it to the genus Goodenia but the name G. lyrata was unavailable as it was preoccupied by a species described by Roger Charles Carolin. Shepherd named the new species G. caroliniana in honour of Carolin.

Distribution and habitat

Goodenia caroliniana grows in damp heath on sandy soil mainly near Sydney, but also in Queensland.