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Goodenia stellata Carolin

Reference
Telopea 2:72-73 (1980)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Decumbent to prostrate herb, leaves with stellate hairs. Fl. yellow, Jul to Oct. Red stony soils.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 8 February 2000
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Scientific Description

Stems unribbed. Leaves flat, 20-110 mm long, 8-40 mm wide, Indumentum present, with dense, stellate hairs; margins entire. Bracteoles absent. Pedicel pedicellate, Pedicel length the pedicels 10-17 mm long, Indumentum present, Hair type with stellate hairs. Calyx lobes present, Calyx length 4-4.5 mm long, hairy, with dense, stellate hairs. Corolla yellow, 16-24 mm long, auriculate, not spurred, hairy on the outside, with dense, stellate hairs, hairy on the inside; central lobes 5-8 mm long, with wings; outer lobes 10-12 mm long, wings present on both sides, 0.4-0.5 mm wide. Anthers free. Ovary inferior, not gibbose; style 8-9 mm long, hairy; indusium single, hairy; ovules more than two. Flowers in July, August, September and October. Occurs in the Pilbara (PIL), Murchison (MUR) and Little Sandy Desert(LSD) IBRA Region(s), of the Eremaean (E) Botanical Province.

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Pilbara.
IBRA Subregions
Hamersley.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Ashburton, East Pilbara.