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Goodenia sp. Mt Elvire (D.J. Edinger 1857)

Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Prostrate to decumbent shrub. Fl. yellow, Apr. Top of breakaways.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 27 June 2002

Scientific Description

Stems unribbed. Leaves flat, 10-50 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, Indumentum present, with sparse, glandular hairs; margins entire. Bracteoles absent. Pedicel pedicellate, Pedicel length the pedicels 18-25 mm long, Indumentum present, Hair type with glandular hairs. Calyx lobes present, Calyx length 2.5-3 mm long, hairy, with sparse, glandular hairs. Corolla yellow, 15-16 mm long, auriculate, not spurred, hairy on the outside, with sparse, glandular hairs, hairy on the inside; central lobes 3.5-4 mm long, with wings; outer lobes 10.5-11.2 mm long, wing present on both sides and clearly unequal, 0.7-1 mm wide on the narrower side, 0.7-1.3 mm wide on the broader side. Anthers free. Ovary inferior, not gibbose; style 7-8 mm long, hairy; indusium single, hairy; ovules more than two. Flowers in April. Occurs in the Murchison (MUR) IBRA Region(s), of the Eremaean (E) Botanical Province.

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 2 August 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Murchison.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Murchison.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Menzies.