Goodenia chambersii explained

Goodenia chambersii is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is an ascending shrub with toothed, broadly egg-shaped to round leaves, racemes or thyrses of yellow flowers and oval fruit.

Description

Goodenia chambersii is an ascending shrub that typically grows to a height of and has somewhat sticky foliage. The leaves are broadly egg-shaped to round, toothed, long and wide on a petiole up to long. The flowers are arranged in racemes or thyrses up to long on a peduncle long with linear bracteoles long at the base, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are lance-shaped, long and the petals are yellow and long. The lower lobes of the corolla are about long with wings about wide. Flowering occurs from September to October and the fruit is an oval capsule about long.[1] [2]

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia chambersii was first formally described in 1859 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from material collected by John McDouall Stuart, possibly in 1858, in the ranges to the west of the Lake Eyre basin.[3] [4] [5] The specific epithet (chambersii) honour James and John Chambers who sponsored McDouall Stuart's expeditions.

Distribution and habitat

Goodenia chambersii grows on stony slopes and near watercourse in central South Australia, near the Lake Eyre basin.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Carolin . Roger C. . Goodenia chambersii . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra . 4 January 2021.
  2. Web site: Goodenia chambersii . State Herbarium of South Australia . 4 January 2021.
  3. Carolin . Roger C. . Nomenclatural notes and new taxa in the genus Goodenia (Goodeniaceae). . Telopea . 1990 . 3 . 4 . 520–521 . 4 January 2021.
  4. Web site: Goodenia chambersii. APNI. 4 January 2021.
  5. Book: von Mueller . Ferdinand . Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae . 1859 . Victorian Government Printer . Melbourne . 204 . 4 January 2021.