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Goodenia iyouta Carolin

Reference
Telopea 2:69-70 (1980)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Prostrate herb. Fl. yellow, Feb to Mar or Jun to Sep. Red sandy soils.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 22 September 1999
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Scientific Description

Stems unribbed. Leaves flat, 20-70 mm long, 8-17 mm wide, Indumentum present, with sparse, simple hairs; margins toothed. Bracteoles absent. Pedicel pedicellate, Pedicel length the pedicels 10-30 mm long, Indumentum present, Hair type with simple hairs. Calyx lobes present, Calyx length 3-4 mm long, hairy, with sparse, simple hairs. Corolla yellow or cream, 15-22 mm long, without auricles, not spurred, hairy on the outside, with sparse, simple hairs, glabrous on the inside; central lobes 6-9 mm long, with wings; outer lobes 7-11 mm long, wings present on both sides, 1.8-3 mm wide. Anthers free. Ovary inferior, not gibbose; style 6-7.5 mm long, glabrous; indusium single, hairy; ovules more than two. Flowers in September. Occurs in the Pilbara (PIL), Central Ranges (CR), Gascoyne (GAS) and Gibson Desert (GD) IBRA Region(s), of the Eremaean (E) Botanical Province.

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Central Ranges, Gascoyne, Gibson Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Little Sandy Desert.
IBRA Subregions
Carnegie, Lateritic Plain, Mackay, Mann-Musgrave Block, Rudall, Trainor.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
East Pilbara, Ngaanyatjarraku, Wiluna.