Goodenia stirlingii explained

Goodenia stephensonii is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to north-eastern Queensland. It is an erect undershrub with narrow elliptic leaves and racemes of yellow flowers.

Description

Goodenia stirlingii is an erect undershrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has glabrous foliage. The leaves are sessile, narrow elliptic, long and wide, with toothed edges. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long on a peduncle up to long with leaf-like bracts and linear bracteoles about long. The sepals are lance-shaped, long, the corolla yellow and about long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings wide. Flowering mainly occurs from March to July.[1]

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia stirlingii was first formally described in 1904 by Frederick Manson Bailey in the Queensland Agricultural Journal from specimens collected by Dr. James Stirling near Herberton.[2]

Distribution

This goodenia occurs in north-eastern Queensland.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Carolin . Roger C. . Goodenia stirlingii . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra . 2 May 2021.
  2. Web site: Goodenia stirlingii. APNI. 2 May 2021.