Goodenia goodeniacea


Goodenia goodeniacea is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to northern, inland Australia. It a prostrate herb with toothed, elliptic to egg-shaped leaves at the base of the plant, and thyrses of yellow flowers with purplish lines.

Description

Goodenia goodeniacea is a prostrate herb with stems up to long. The leaves at the base of the plant are elliptic to egg-shaped, long and wide with toothed edges. The leaves on the stem are similar but smaller. The flowers are arranged in thyrses up to long on peduncles long with leaf-like bracts at the base. The individual flowers are on pedicels long with linear bracteoles up to long. The sepals are linear, about long, the corolla yellow with purplish lines, long. The lower lobes are long with wings about wide. Flowering occurs from May to August and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule about in diameter.

Taxonomy and naming

This species was first formally described in 1859 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name Scaevola goodeniacea in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae. In 1990 Roger Charles Carolin changed the name to Goodenia goodeniacea in the journal Telopea.

Distribution and habitat

This goodenia grows on plains and sand dunes in scattered populations between Tennant Creek and Sturt Creek in the Northern Territory, and in Queensland.

Conservation status

Goodenia goodeniacea is classified as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992 and the .