Goodenia delicata


Goodenia delicata is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a low-lying to ascending herb with linear to narrow elliptic leaves mostly at the base of the plant, and racemes of yellow flowers.

Description

Goodenia delicata is a low-lying to ascending, short-lived herb with more or less hairy stems to long that become glabrous as they age. The leaves are mostly at the base of the plant, linear to narrow elliptic, long and wide, sometimes with teeth on the edges. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long on a peduncle long with linear bracteoles long at the base, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are narrow egg-shaped, long, the corolla yellow, long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings about wide. Flowering occurs from October to June and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule about in diameter.

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia delicata was first formally described in 1990 by Roger Charles Carolin in the journal Telopea from material collected in 1959 by Leslie Pedley near Westmar in Queensland.

Distribution and habitat

This goodenia grows in forest and woodland on the tablelands of south-eastern Queensland and northern New South Wales.