Goodenia blackiana explained

Goodenia blackiana, commonly known as Black's goodenia,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to southern Australia. It is a herb with egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and racemes of yellow flowers.

Description

Goodenia blackiana is a prostrate to ascending perennial herb that typically grows to a height of, with stems up to long. The leaves are mostly at the base of the plant, egg-shaped to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide, with cottony, woolly hairs on the lower surface. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long on a peduncle long, or are solitary in leaf axils. Each flower is on a pedicel long with a linear bracteoles long at the base. The sepals are narrow oblong to egg-shaped, long, the petals yellow, long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings about wide. Flowering mainly occurs from September to January and the fruit is a more or less cylindrical capsule about long.[2] [3]

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia blackiana was first formally described in 1992 by Roger Charles Carolin in the Flora of Australia from material collected in the Grampians in 1953.[4]

Distribution and habitat

This goodenia grows in mallee, woodland and grassland in scattered locations in western and northern Victoria and south-eastern South Australia.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jeanes . Jeff A. . Goodenia blackiana . Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria . 30 December 2020.
  2. Web site: Carolin . Roger C. . Goodenia blackiana . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra . 30 December 2020.
  3. Web site: Goodenia blackiana . State Herbarium of South Australia.
  4. Web site: Goodenia blackiana. APNI. 30 December 2020.