Goodenia xanthosperma


Goodenia xanthosperma, commonly known as yellow-seeded goodenia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to southern inland Western Australia. It is a prostrate herb with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves at the base of the plant and racemes of yellow flowers with purplish markings.

Description

Goodenia xanthosperma is a prostrate herb that typically grows to a height of with stems up to long. The leaves at the base of the plant are elliptic to egg-shaped, long and wide, with toothed or lobed edges. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long on a peduncle up to long with leaf-like bracts and linear bracteoles up to long, each flower on a pedicel long. The corolla is yellow with purplish markings, about long, the lower lobes long with wings about wide. Flowering mainly occurs from May to October.

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia xanthosperma was first formally described in 1876 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected by Jess Young. The specific epithet means "yellow-seeded".

Distribution

This goodenia grows in sandy soil on sandplains in the drier areas of southern inland Western Australia.

Conservation status

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