Goodenia viridula

Goodenia viridula is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of Queensland. It is an erect undershrub with linear leaves and spikes of greenish-yellow flowers.

Description

Goodenia viridula is an erect undershrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has many branches, the foliage covered with cottony hairs when young. The leaves are linear, long and wide with the edges rolled under. The flowers are arranged in spikes up to long and have leaf-like bracts and bracteoles long. The flowers are sessile with egg-shaped sepals long. The petals are greenish-yellow and long, the lower lobes of the corolla long with wings about wide. Flowering occurs from November to May.

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia viridula was first formally described in 1990 by Roger Charles Carolin in the journal Telopea from a specimen collected by Lindsay Stuart Smith and near Jericho in 1940. The specific epithet means "greenish", referring to the colour of the corolla.

Distribution

This goodenia grows in open woodland and heath and is only known from near Jericho in Queensland.

Conservation status

Goodenia viridula is classified as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.