Goodenia integerrima
Goodenia integerrima, commonly known as gypsum goodenia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low-lying to ascending, perennial herb with linear leaves clustered on the stems, and umbels of yellow flowers with a brownish centre.
Description
Goodenia integerrima is a low-lying to ascending perennial herb with stems about long. The leaves are linear, clustered on the stems, up to long and wide. The flowers are arranged in umbels up to long with leaf-like bracts, each flower on a pedicel about long. The sepals are narrow triangular, about long, the flowers yellow with a brownish centre, about long. The lower lobes of the corolla are about long with wings about wide. Flowering occurs about November and the fruit is more or less spherical capsule about in diameter.
Taxonomy and naming
Goodenia integerrima was first formally described in 1990 by Roger Charles Carolin in the journal Telopea from material collected in 1965 by Alex George near Lake King. The specific epithet means "undivided", referring to the leaves.
This goodenia grows on elevated sandy islets in salt lakes near Lake King in the south-west of Western Australia.
Conservation status
Goodenia integerrimais classified as "Threatened Flora (Declared Rare Flora — Extant)" by the Department of Environment and Conservation (Western Australia) and an Interim Recovery Plan has been prepared.