Goodenia potamica


Goodenia potamica is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the Northern Territory. It is a prostrate to ascending herb with elliptic to oblong leaves on the stems and racemes of yellow flowers.

Description

Goodenia potamica is a prostrate to ascending herb with stems up to long. The leaves on the stems are elliptic to oblong, mostly long and wide, sometimes with a large lobe on one side, near the base. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long, each flower on a pedicel long with leaf-like bracts. The sepals are oblong, long, the petals yellow and long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings wide. Flowering mainly occurs around June and the fruit is an elliptic to spherical capsule about long.

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia potamica was first formally described in 1990 Roger Charles Carolin in the journal Telopea from specimens collected by J. Must near the Liverpool River crossing in 1972. The specific epithet means "pertaining to a river", referring to the habitat of this species.

Distribution and habitat

This goodenia grows on river flats and in woodland in the Liverpool River area of the Northern Territory.

Conservation status

Goodenia potamica is classified as "data deficient" under the .