Goodenia decurrens explained

Goodenia decurrens is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is an erect, glabrous undershrub with lance-shaped to elliptic, toothed leaves, yellow flowers arranged in racemes or thyrses, and oval fruit.

Description

Goodenia decurrens is an erect, glabrous undershrub that typically grows to a height of . The leaves are decurrent, sessile, lance-shaped to elliptic, long, wide with toothed edges. The flowers are arranged in racemes or thyrses up to long with linear to lance-shaped bracts up to long at the base, each flower on a pedicel up to long. The sepals are narrow egg-shaped, long and the petals are yellow, long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings wide. Flowering mainly occurs from October to March and the fruit is an oval capsule about long.^{[1] [2]}

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia decurrens was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.^{[3] [4]} The specific epithet (decurrens) refers to the decurrent leaves.^[5]

Distribution and habitat

This goodenia grows on sandstone cliffs in forest between Blackheath and Wollar in New South Wales.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Carolin . Roger C. . Goodenia decurrens . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra . 15 January 2021.
2. Web site: Carolin . Roger C. . Goodenia decurrens . Royal Botanic Garden Sydney . 15 January 2021.
3. Web site: Goodenia decurrens. APNI. 15 January 2021.
4. Book: Brown . Robert . Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen . 1810 . London . 575 . 15 January 2021.
5. Book: Sharr . Francis Aubi . George . Alex . Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings . 2019 . Four Gables Press . Kardinya, WA . 9780958034180 . 179 . 3rd.