Goodenia iyouta explained

Goodenia iyouta is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a prostrate herb with toothed, egg-shaped to elliptic stem-leaves, and racemes of dark yellow or cream-coloured flowers with a distinct pouch.

Description

Goodenia iyouta is a prostrate herb with stems up to long. The leaves are arranged on the stems, egg-shaped to elliptic long, wide and toothed to almost lobed. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long with leaf-like bracts, each flower on a pedicel up to long. The sepals are narrow oblong, about long, the corolla dark yellow or cream-coloured with a distinct pouch, long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings about wide. Flowering occurs from about June to September and the fruit is more or less spherical capsule about in diameter.[1] [2]

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia iyouta was first formally described in 1980 by Roger Charles Carolin in the journal Telopea from material collected in 1965.[3] The specific epithet (iyouta) is an Aboriginal word for Triodia species, with which G. iyouta often grows.

Distribution and habitat

This goodenia grows in red, sandy soil in the northern Gibson Desert and near Roebourne in Western Australia.

Conservation status

Goodenia iyouta is classified as "not threatened" by the Department of Environment and Conservation (Western Australia).

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Carolin . Roger C. . Goodenia iyouta . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra . 21 February 2021.
  2. Carolin . Rogier . New species and new combinations in Goodeniaceae and Campanulaceae . Telopea . 23 December 1980 . 69–70 . 10.7751/telopea19804112. free .
  3. Web site: Goodenia iyouta. APNI. 21 February 2021.