Goodenia montana, commonly known as mountain velleia,[1] is a flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a small, perennial herb with lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow flowers. It mainly grows in woodland and sub-alpine grasslands in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.
Goodenia montana is a small perennial herb that typically grows to high and forms a rosette. The leaves are lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, long, wide with toothed or smooth margins. The flowers are borne on a low-lying or ascending flowering stem up to long with bracteoles up to long. The lower sepal is egg-shaped to oblong, long. The yellow corolla is long, inner and outer surface covered with short, soft hairs. Flowering occurs from November to February and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule about in diameter containing a seed about in diameter.[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
This species was first formally described in 1847 by Joseph Dalton Hooker who gave it the name Velleia montana in the London Journal of Botany.[7] [8] In 2020, Kelly Anne Shepherd transferred the species to Goodenia as G. montana in the journal PhytoKeys.The specific epithet montana refers to mountains or coming from mountains.[9]
Mountain velleia grows at higher altitudes in woodland, subalpine swamps and grassland south of Boonoo Boonoo National Park in New South Wales,[1] and is common in Tasmania and eastern Victoria.