Goodenia stirlingii


Goodenia stephensonii is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to north-eastern Queensland. It is an erect undershrub with narrow elliptic leaves and racemes of yellow flowers.

Description

Goodenia stirlingii is an erect undershrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has glabrous foliage. The leaves are sessile, narrow elliptic, long and wide, with toothed edges. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long on a peduncle up to long with leaf-like bracts and linear bracteoles about long. The sepals are lance-shaped, long, the corolla yellow and about long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings wide. Flowering mainly occurs from March to July.

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia stirlingii was first formally described in 1904 by Frederick Manson Bailey in the Queensland Agricultural Journal from specimens collected by Dr. near Herberton.

Distribution

This goodenia occurs in north-eastern Queensland.