Goodenia pedicellata

Goodenia pedicellata is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and endemic to the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It is a perennial herb with a single stem, egg-shaped to trowel-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and racemes of yellow flowers on unusually long pedicels.

Description

Goodenia pedicellata is a perennial herb that typically grows to a height of with a single, hairy stem. The leaves are arranged in a rosette at the base of the plant and on the ends of the stem and are egg-shaped to trowel-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long, and wide. The flowers are arranged in a raceme, each flower on a pedicel up to about long with leaf-like bracts at the base. The sepals are lance-shaped, about long and the corolla yellow with purplish lines and up to about long. The lower lobes of the corolla are about long with wings about wide. Flowering has been observed in late June and the fruit is a more or less elliptic capsule about long.

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia pedicellata was first formally described in 2005 by Leigh William Sage and Kingsley Wayne Dixon in the journal Nuytsia from material collected by Dixon near a tributary of the Oakover River in 2002. The specific epithet is a reference to the plant's "long and persistent pedicels".

Distribution and habitat

This goodenia grows on rocky slopes and the tops of small hills in the Pilbara biogeographic region in the north-west of Western Australia.

Conservation status

Goddenia pedicellata is classified as "Priority One" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife, meaning that it is known from only one or a few locations which are potentially at risk.