Goodenia rotundifolia explained

Goodenia rotundifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a prostrate to erect perennial herb with more or less round, toothed leaves and racemes of yellow flowers.

Description

Goodenia rotundifolia is prostrate to erect perennial herb that typically grows to a height of up to . The leaves are mostly at the base of the plant, more or less round to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide with toothed, sometimes wavy edges. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long on a peduncle long with leaf-like bracts, each flower on a pedicel up to long with linear bracteoles about long. The sepals are linear to lance-shaped, long and the petals are yellow, long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings wide. Flowering mainly occurs from September to May and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule in diameter.[1] [2]

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia rotundifolia was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.[3] [4] The specific epithet (rotundifolia) means "circular-leaved".[5]

Distribution and habitat

This goodenia grows in woodland and forest on the coast and tablelands from southern Queensland to the Hunter Valley in New South Wales.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Carolin . Roger C. . Goodenia rotundifolia . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra . 20 April 2021.
  2. Web site: Carolin . Roger C. . Goodenia rotundifolia . Royal Botanic Garden Sydney . 20 April 2021.
  3. Web site: Goodenia rotundifolia. APNI. 20 April 2021.
  4. Book: Brown . Robert . Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen . 1810 . London . 576 . 20 April 2021.
  5. Book: Sharr . Francis Aubi . George . Alex . Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings . 2019 . Four Gables Press . Kardinya, WA . 9780958034180 . 297 . 3rd.