Goodenia muelleriana explained

Goodenia muelleriana is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the north-west of Western Australia. It is an ascending to erect herb with elliptic to lance-shaped leaves at the base of the plant, and racemes of yellow flowers.

Description

Goodenia muelleriana is an ascending to erect herb that typically grows to a height of up to . It has elliptic to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, at the base of the plant, long and wide, sometimes with teeth on the edges. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long, with leaf-like bracts, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are lance-shaped, about long, the petals yellow, long. The lower lobes of the corolla are about long with wings wide. Flowering mainly occurs from May to September and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule about in diameter.[1] [2]

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia muelleriana was first formally described in 1990 Roger Charles Carolin in the journal Telopea from a specimen he collected near Tom Price in 1970.[3] The specific epithet (muelleriana) honours Ferdinand von Mueller.

Distribution and habitat

This goodenia grows in sandy or stony soil in the Gascoyne, Little Sandy Desert and Pilbara biogeographic regions in the north-west of Western Australia.

Conservation status

Goodenia muelleriana 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 muelleriana . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra . 13 March 2021.
  2. Carolin . Roger C. . Nomenclatural notes and new taxa in the genus Goodenia (Goodeniaceae). Telopea . 1990 . 3 . 4 . 555–556 . 10.7751/telopea19904905 . 13 March 2021. free .
  3. Web site: Goodenia muelleriana. APNI. 13 March 2021.