Goodenia parvisepta explained

Goodenia parvisepta is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to a small area of New South Wales. It is a glabrous perennial herb with erect flowering stems, lance-shaped leaves with toothed or lobed edges, and yellow flowers.

Description

Goodenia parvisepta is a glabrous, perennial herb with erect or ascending flowering stems up to long. Its leaves are lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide with toothed or lobed edges. The flowers are borne on the flowering stem with bracteoles up to long and free from each other. The lower sepal is elliptic, long, and the petals are yellow, long and hairy only on the outside, with wings about wide, almost to the base of the lower sepal. Flowering mainly occurs from September to January and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule containing seeds about in diameter.[1] [2] [3]

Taxonomy

This species was first formally described in 1967 by Roger Charles Carolin who gave it the name Velleia parvisepta in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.[4] In 2020, Kelly Anne Shepherd and others transferred it to the genus Goodenia as G. parvisepta in Australian Systematic Botany.[5] [6]

Distribution and habitat

Goodenia parvisepta grows in damp situations in the Goonoo State Forest in New South Wales.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Carolin . Roger C. . Velleia parvisepta . Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra . 6 May 2024.
  2. Web site: Carolin . Roger C. . Velleia parvisepta . Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney . 6 May 2024.
  3. Carolin . Roger C. . The Genus Velleia Sm. . Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales . 1967 . 92 . 1 . 49–50 . 6 May 2024.
  4. Web site: Velleia parvisepta . APNI. 6 May 2024.
  5. 88. free.
  6. Web site: Goodenia parvisepta . APNI . 6 May 2024.