Clasping Goodenia

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 04:07:00 GMT

Erect undershrub or shrubby herb to 1 m tall, viscid, glandular-pubescent, with long and short, glandular hairs and fine, simple hairs, aromatic. Leaves sessile, stem-clasping, ovate to oblong, denticulate; lamina 3–9 cm long, 5–30 mm wide. Inflorescence a spike-like raceme, to 15 cm long; bracts leaf-like; peduncles 1–2 mm long; bracteoles linear-lanceolate, 1–2 mm long; pedicels 2–3 mm long, indistinctly articulate. Sepals lanceolate, 2.5–3.5 mm long. Corolla 12–15 mm long, ±glabrous inside, with enations, inconspicuously auriculate; abaxial lobes 3.5–7.5 mm long; wings 1–2.5 mm wide. Indusium broadly oblong. Ovules 20–40. Fruit ellipsoidal, 6 mm long; valves sometimes bifid. Seeds elliptic, 3 mm long, yellow-brown, colliculate to tuberculate. Occurs in the southern Flinders Ra. and the Mt Lofty Ra. and on Kangaroo Is., S.A. Found in open forest and on sea cliffs.
Family: Goodeniaceae Genus: Goodenia Species: amplexans Main Flower Colour: Yellow

Goodeniaceae Goodenia amplexans Wildflowers

Clasping Goodenia