Goodenia pulchella


Goodenia pulchella is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect to ascending herb with lance-shaped leaves mostly at the base of the plant, and racemes of yellow flowers.

Description

Goodenia pulchella is an erect to ascending herb that typically grows to a height of and has foliage with stiff hairs. The leaves are lance-shaped, mostly arranged at the base of the plant, long and wide, sometimes with wavy or toothed edges. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long with leaf-like bracts long, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are narrow oblong, long, the petals yellow, long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings up to wide. Flowering occurs from September to January and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule in diameter.

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia pulchella was first formally described in 1837 by George Bentham in Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus Liber Baro de Hügel from specimens collected near the Swan River by Charles von Hügel. The specific epithet means "beautiful and small".

Distribution and habitat

This goodenia grows in seasonally wet sites between Kalbarri and the Great Australian Bight in the south and south-west of Western Australia.

Conservation status

Goodenia pulchella is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.