Goodia parviflora explained

Goodia parviflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a shrub with trifoliate leaves, the leaflets elliptic to more or less round, and yellow or orange-yellow and red and purplish, pea-like flowers.

Description

Goodia parviflora is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to about and has new growth that soon becomes glabrous. Its leaves are trifoliate with elliptic to more or less round leaflets, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are yellow or orange-yellow with a red and purplish flare at the base, arranged in racemes up to long, each flower on a pedicel long with bracteoles about long at the base. The sepals are long and joined at the base, the lower three sepal lobes about long. The standard petal is long and about wide on a stalk long, the wings long and purplish-brown, and the keel is red and about long. Flowering occurs at various times and the fruit is an oblong, tan-coloured pod long on a stalk long.[1]

Taxonomy

Goodia parviflora was first formally described in 2011 by Ian R. Thompson in the journal Muelleria, from specimens collected in the Coominglah State Forest near Monto by Anthony Bean in 1996.[2] The specific epithet (parviflora) means "small-flowered".[3]

Distribution and habitat

This pea grows in loamy soils in woodland or forest in south-eastern Queensland.

Notes and References

  1. Thompson . Ian R. . A revision of Goodia (Fabaceae: Bossiaeeae). . Muelleria . 2011 . 29 . 2 . 151–152 . 10 September 2023.
  2. Web site: Goodia parviflora. APNI. 10 September 2023.
  3. Book: Sharr . Francis Aubi . George . Alex . Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings . 2019 . Four Gables Press . Kardinya, WA . 9780958034180 . 271 . 3rd.