Goodenia phillipsiae explained

Goodenia phillipsiae is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to a restricted area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect to spreading, glabrous shrub with oblong to linear stem leaves and thyrses of yellow flowers.

Description

Goodenia phillipsiae is an erect to spreading suffruticose, glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of . It has thick, oblong to linear leaves on the stems, up to long and wide. The flowers are arranged in thyrses up to about long, with leaf-like bracts, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are elliptic to lance-shaped, about long, the petals yellow, long and densely bearded at the base. The lower lobes of the corolla are about long with wings up to wide. Flowering occurs around November.[1] [2]

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia phillipsiae was first formally described in 1990 Roger Charles Carolin in the journal Telopea from a specimen collected by Mary E. Phillips east of Ravensthorpe in 1962.[3] The specific epithet (phillipsiae) honours the collector of the type specimens.

Distribution

This goodenia is only known from the type location.

Conservation status

Goodenia phillipsiae is classified as "Priority Four" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife, meaning that is rare or near threatened.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Carolin . Roger C. . Goodenia phillipsiae . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra . 31 March 2021.
  2. Carolin . Roger C. . Nomenclatural notes and new taxa in the genus Goodenia (Goodeniaceae). Telopea . 1990 . 3 . 4 . 548–549 . 10.7751/telopea19904905 . 31 March 2021. free .
  3. Web site: Goodenia phillipsiae. APNI. 31 March 2021.
  4. Web site: Conservation codes for Western Australian Flora and Fauna. Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife. 31 March 2021.