Goodenia convexa explained

Goodenia convexa is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a low-lying herb with egg-shaped to lance-shaped, usually toothed leaves mostly at the base of the plant, and racemes of yellow flowers.

Description

Goodenia convexa is a low-lying herb with more or less hairy stems to long. The leaves are mostly at the base of the plant, lance-shaped to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide, usually with teeth on the edges. The flowers are arranged in loose racemes up to long on a peduncle long with linear to lance-shaped bracteoles at the base, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are narrow elliptic, long, the corolla yellow, long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings wide. Flowering mainly occurs from August to November and the fruit is an oval to cylindrical capsule long.[1] [2]

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia convexa was first formally described in 1990 by Roger Charles Carolin in the journal Telopea from material collected by James Drummond near the Swan River.[3]

Distribution and habitat

This goodenia grows in sandy heath and woodland between the Hill River, Tone River and Cowcowing in the south-west of Western Australia.

Conservation status

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Carolin . Roger C. . Goodenia convexa . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra . 7 January 2021.
  2. Carolin . Roger C. . Nomenclatural notes and new taxa in the genus Goodenia (Goodeniaceae) . Telopea . 1990 . 3 . 4 . 529–530 . 10.7751/telopea19904905 . 7 January 2021. free .
  3. Web site: Goodenia convexa. APNI. 7 January 2021.