Goodenia larapinta explained

Goodenia larapinta is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the Northern Territory. It is an erect perennial herb with elliptic to lance-shaped stem-leaves and racemes of yellow flowers.

Description

Goodenia larapinta is an erect perennial herb that typically grows to a height of . It has elliptic to lance-shaped leaves arranged along the stem, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long with leaf-like bracts, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are lance-shaped, long, the corolla yellow, long. The lower lobes of the corolla are up to long with wings wide. Flowering mainly occurs from April to September and the fruit is a cylindrical capsule long.^{[1] [2]}

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia larapinta was first formally described in 1896 by Ralph Tate in the Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia.^{[3] [4]} In 1990, Roger Charles Carolin selected specimens collected by Tate near Glen Edith in June 1894 as the lectotype.^[5]

Distribution and habitat

This goodenia grows in rocky places in the Northern Territory, south from the Barkly Tableland.

Conservation status

Goodenia larapinta is classified as "least concern" under the Northern Territory Government Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1976.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Carolin . Roger C. . Goodenia larapinta . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra . 1 March 2021.
2. Web site: Goodenia larapinta . Northern Territory Government . 1 March 2021.
3. Web site: Goodenia larapinta. APNI. 1 March 2021.
4. Tate . Ralph . Botany . Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia . 1896 . 3 . 189–190 . 1 March 2021.
5. Carolin . Roger C. . Nomenclatural notes and new taxa in the genus Goodenia (Goodeniaceae) . Telopea . 1990 . 3 . 4 . 551 . 10.7751/telopea19904905 . 1 March 2021. free .