Goodenia viscidula
Goodenia viscidula is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is an erect annual herb with sticky, hairy foliage, egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and thyrses or panicles of purplish-blue flowers.
Description
Goodenia viscidula is an erect annual herb that typically grows to a height of up to, is covered with sticky, hairy foliage and has adventitious roots. The leaves at the base of the plant are egg-shaped to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide, sometimes with inconspicuously toothed edges. The flowers are arranged in loose thyrses or panicles up to long on a peduncle up to long, with linear bracts, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are lance-shaped, about long and the petals are purplish-blue and long. The lower lobes of the corolla are about long with wings about wide. Flowering occurs from March to May.
Goodenia viscidula was first formally described in 1980 by Roger Charles Carolin in the journal Telopea from a specimen he collected near Borroloola in 1974. The specific epithet means "somewhat sticky".
Distribution
This goodenia grows in seasonally damp place in northern parts of the Northern Territory and near the Gulf of Carpentaria in Queensland.
Conservation status
Goodenia viscidula is classified as of "least concern" under the and the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.