Goodenia perryi

Goodenia perryi is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an ascending herb or shrub with silvery hairs, lance-shaped leaves at the base of the plant and racemes of blue flowers.

Description

Goodenia perryi is an ascending herb or shrub that typically grows to a height of and is covered with silvery, cottony hairs. The leaves at the base of the plant are lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to about long, with leaf-like bracts and linear bracteoles long. Each flower is on a pedicel long and the sepals are linear, long, the petals blue, long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings about wide. Flowering occurs around October.

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia perryi was first formally described in 1990 by Roger Charles Carolin in the journal Telopea from a specimen collected by Charles Gardner at Bunjil in 1961. The specific epithet probably honours Dick Perry, a forester who worked with Gardner.

Distribution and habitat

This goodenia grows in yellow sand near Bunjil in the Avon Wheatbelt and Yalgoo biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.

Conservation status

Goodenia perryi is classified is classified as "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat.