Goodenia racemosa
Goodenia racemosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is an erect undershrub with linear or narrow oblong leaves and racemes of vivid yellow flowers.
Description
Goodenia racemosa is an erect, mostly glabrous undershrub that typically grows to a height of up to. The leaves on the stems are linear to narrow oblong, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in thyrses or racemes up to long with linear bracts mostly about long. Each flower is on a pedicel about long, and the sepals are linear, about long. The corolla is vivid yellow, long, the lower lobes long with wings wide. Flowering occurs from September to December and the fruit is a spherical to oval capsule, long.Taxonomy and naming
Goodenia racemosa was first formally described in 1859 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected near the Burnett River.In 1990, Roger Charles Carolin described G. racemosa var. latifolia and the name and that of the autonym are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:Goodenia racemosa var. latifolia Carolin has narrow oblong leaves wide;Goodenia racemosa F.Muell. var. racemosa has linear leaves about wide. The subspecies name means "wide leaf".