Goodenia stellata explained

Goodenia stellata is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to inland areas of Western Australia. It is a low-lying to prostrate herb with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with wavy edges, and racemes of yellow flowers.

Description

Goodenia stellata is a low-lying to prostrate herb with stems up to long, the foliage covered with star-shaped hairs. The leaves at the base of the plant are oblong to egg-shaped, long and wide with wavy 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 to narrow oblong, about long, the petals yellow, long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings about wide. Flowering occurs from July to October and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule in diameter.[1] [2]

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia stellata was first formally described in 1980 by Roger Charles Carolin in the journal Telopea from material he collected from Tom Price in 1970.[3] The specific epithet (stellata) refers to the star-shaped hairs on the foliage.

Distribution and habitat

This goodenia grows in stony soil in the Pilbara and Gibson Desert regions of inland Western Australia.

Conservation status

Goodenia stellata 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 stellata . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra . 27 April 2021.
  2. Carolin . Roger C . New species and new combinations in Goodeniaceae and Campanulaceae . Telopea . 1980 . 2 . 1 . 72–73 . 27 April 2021.
  3. Web site: Goodenia stellata. APNI. 30 April 2021.