Goodenia leiosperma explained

Goodenia leiosperma is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the Northern Territory. It is an ascending to low-lying herb with egg-shaped to lance-shaped stem-leaves and racemes of yellow flowers.

Description

Goodenia leiosperma is an ascending to low-lying herb that has stems up to . It has egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves arranged along the stem, long and wide and ephemeral leaves at the base. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long with leaf-like bracts, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are linear, long, the corolla yellow, long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings about wide. Flowering mainly occurs from February to June and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule about in diameter.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia leiosperma was first formally described in 1990 by Roger Charles Carolin in the journal Telopea from specimens collected by George Chippendale south of Darwin in 1961.^[4]

Distribution and habitat

This goodenia grows in forest in the Victoria River district and Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.

Conservation status

Goodenia leiosperma 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 leiosperma . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra . 1 March 2021.
2. Web site: Goodenia leiosperma . Northern Territory Government . 1 March 2021.
3. Carolin . Roger C. . Nomenclatural notes and new taxa in the genus Goodenia (Goodeniaceae) . Telopea . 1990 . 3 . 4 . 558–559 . 10.7751/telopea19904905 . 1 March 2021. free .
4. Web site: Goodenia leiosperma. APNI. 1 March 2021.