Goodenia microptera

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Goodenia microptera
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Goodeniaceae
Genus: Goodenia
Species:
G. microptera
Binomial name
Goodenia microptera

Goodenia microptera is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It is an erect to ascending, sprawling herb with narrow oblong to lance-shaped leaves sometimes with teeth on the edges, and racemes of yellow flowers with a brownish centre.

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Description

Goodenia microptera is an erect to ascending, sprawling herb, growing to a height of up to 40 cm (16 in) and densely covered with simple and glandular hairs. The leaves are mostly arranged at the base of the plant, narrow oblong to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 40–100 mm (1.6–3.9 in) long and 5–12 mm (0.20–0.47 in) wide, sometimes with teeth on the edges. The flowers are arranged in racemes 200 mm (7.9 in) long with leaf-like bracts, the individual flowers on pedicels 5–40 mm (0.20–1.57 in) long. The sepals are narrow elliptic, 2–2.5 mm (0.079–0.098 in) long, the corolla yellow with a brownish centre, 10–12 mm (0.39–0.47 in) long. The lower lobes of the corolla are 3.5–4.5 mm (0.14–0.18 in) long with wings 0.5–0.8 mm (0.020–0.031 in) wide. Flowering mainly occurs from March to August and the fruit is a flattened spherical capsule 7–8 mm (0.28–0.31 in) in diameter. [2] [3]

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia microptera was first formally described in 1862 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected by P. Walcott near Nickol Bay. [4] [5] The specific epithet (microptera) means "small-winged". [6]

Distribution and habitat

This goodenia grows on plains, sand dunes and limestone ridges in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. [2] [3]

Conservation status

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

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References

  1. "Goodenia microptera". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  2. 1 2 Carolin, Roger C. "Goodenia microptera". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 "Goodenia microptera". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  4. "Goodenia microptera". APNI. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  5. von Mueller, Ferdinand (1862). Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae. 3. Melbourne: Victorian Government Printer. p. 34. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  6. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 252. ISBN   9780958034180.