Goodenia tripartita


Goodenia tripartita is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low-lying to prostrate herb with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, mostly at the base of the plant, and racemes of bright yellow flowers.

Description

Goodenia tripartita is a low-lying to prostrate herb with stems up to and soft hairs on the foliage. The leaves at the base of the plant are narrow elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide with toothed edges. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long on peduncles long with leaf-like bracts, each flower on a pedicel long with linear bracteoles about long. The sepals are linear, long and the petals are bright yellow and about long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings about wide. Flowering occurs from August to October.

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia tripartita was first formally described in 1990 by Roger Charles Carolin in the journal Telopea from a specimen he collected between Ongerup and Ravensthorpe in 1961. The specific epithet means "three-partite", referring to the shape of the foliage hair.

Distribution

This goodenia grows in heath in sandy soil, and is found between Morawa, Newdegate and the Stirling Range.

Conservation status

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