Goodenia coerulea

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Goodenia coerulea
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In the Australian National Botanic Gardens
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Goodeniaceae
Genus: Goodenia
Species:
G. coerulea
Binomial name
Goodenia coerulea
Synonyms [1]
  • Goodenia barilletii F.Muell.
  • Goodenia rigida Benth.
  • Goodenia teretifolia de Vriese nom. illeg.
  • Scaevola tenerade Vriese
  • Scaevola tenera var. pauciflorade Vriese
  • Scaevola tenerade Vriese var. tenera

Goodenia coerulea is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, perennial shrub or biennial herb shrub with linear leaves at the base of the plant, sometimes with a few teeth on the edges, racemes of blue flowers and oval fruit.

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Description

Goodenia coerulea is an erect, ascending shrub or biennial herb that typically grows to a height of 40–50 cm (16–20 in) with foliage covered with glandular hairs. The leaves are linear, 30–70 mm (1.2–2.8 in) long, 1–3 mm (0.039–0.118 in) wide and sessile. The flowers are arranged in racemes mostly up to 300 mm (12 in) long on a peduncle 10–25 mm (0.39–0.98 in) long with small, leaf-like bracteoles 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) long at the base, each flower on a hairy pedicel 5–20 mm (0.20–0.79 in) long. The sepals are linear to lance-shaped, 3–7 mm (0.12–0.28 in) long and the petals blue and 15–25 mm (0.59–0.98 in) long. The lower lobes of the corolla are 5–10 mm (0.20–0.39 in) long with wings about 2 mm (0.079 in) wide. Flowering occurs from September to January and the fruit is an oval capsule 7–8 mm (0.28–0.31 in) long. [2] [3]

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia coerulea was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen . [4] [5] The specific epithet (coerulea) means "deep sky-blue". [6] (The epithet has sometimes been given as caerulea, but Brown's original spelling was coerulea.) [1]

Distribution and habitat

This goodenia grows in a variety of habitats and is widely distributed from near Shark Bay the south coast in the south-west of Western Australia. [2] [3]

Conservation status

Goodenia coerulea is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Goodenia coerulea". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  2. 1 2 Carolin, Roger C. "Goodenia caerulea". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 "Goodenia coerulea". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  4. "Goodenia coerulea". APNI. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  5. Brown, Robert (1810). Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. London. p. 578. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  6. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. pp. 304–305. ISBN   9780958034180.