Goodenia paniculata

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Branched goodenia
Goodenia paniculata Cape Byron.JPG
Cape Byron, Australia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Goodeniaceae
Genus: Goodenia
Species:
G. paniculata
Binomial name
Goodenia paniculata
Synonyms [1]
  • Boutonia pomifera Steud. nom. inval.
  • Goodenia lanceolataSteud. nom. inval.
  • Goodenia flexuosa de Vriese

Goodenia paniculata, commonly known as branched goodenia, [2] is a species of plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a short-lived herb with egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves with toothed edges and racemes of yellow flowers.

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Description

Goodenia paniculata is a short-lived herb that typically grows to a height of 50 cm (20 in) with many adventitious roots. The leaves are mostly at the base of the plant, egg-shaped to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 14–100 mm (0.55–3.94 in) long and 6–10 mm (0.24–0.39 in) wide, with toothed edges. The flowers are arranged in racemes or thyrses up to 250 mm (9.8 in) long on a peduncle 7–80 mm (0.28–3.15 in) long with linear to narrow elliptic bracts 4–40 mm (0.16–1.57 in) long and bracteoles 1.5–2 mm (0.059–0.079 in) long. Each flower is on a pedicel 6–16 mm (0.24–0.63 in) long with triangular to lance-shaped sepals 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) long. The corolla is 10–14 mm (0.39–0.55 in) long, the lower lobes 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) long with wings about 1.5 mm (0.059 in) wide. Flowering mainly occurs from October to April and the fruit is a spherical to oval capsule 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) long. [2] [3] [4]

Taxonomy

The name Goodenia paniculata first appeared in scientific literature in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London in 1794, published by the English botanist, James Edward Smith from specimens collected by David Burton in Port Jackson. [5] [6]

Karel Domin described Goodenia rosulata from Queensland in 1929, but this name is now regarded as a synonym of G. paniculata by the Australian Plant Census. [7]

The specific epithet paniculata refers to flower panicles. However, the flowers form on racemes not panicles.

Distribution and habitat

Branched goodenia grows in freshwater wetland or swampy habitat on clay, silty or sandy soils, often on the coast, and it has been known to grow in soils with pH as low as 2.5. It is found from Queensland through eastern New South Wales to south-eastern Victoria to as far west as Rosedale. In New South Wales in mainly occurs in coastal areas but also as far west as the Blue Mountains and Nerriga. The plant community it grows in is heath or woodland, dominated by such trees as thin-leaved stringybark ( Eucalyptus eugenioides ), broad-leaved red ironbark ( E. fibrosa ), forest red gum ( E. tereticornis ), woollybutt ( E. longifolia ) and white feather honeymyrtle ( Melaleuca decora ), and shrubs such as prickly-leaved paperbark ( M. nodosa ), Deane's paperbark ( M. deanei ), and tantoon ( Leptospermum polygalifolium ). [2] [4] [8] [9]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Goodenia paniculata". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Carolin, Roger C. "Goodenia paniculata". Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney Australia. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  3. ↑ Carolin, Roger C. "Goddenia paniculata". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  4. 1 2 Jeanes, Jeff A. "Goodenia paniculata". Royal Botanic Gardens, Victoria. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  5. ↑ "Goodenia paniculata". APNI. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  6. ↑ Smith, James E. (1794). "An account of two new genera of plants from New South Wales, presented to the Linnean Society by Mr. Thomas Hoy, F.L.S. and Mr John Fairbairn, F.L.S." Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 2: 348. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  7. ↑ "Goodenia rosulata". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  8. ↑ Benson, Doug; McDougall, Lyn (1997). "Ecology of Sydney Plant Species Part 5 Dicotyledon families Flacourtiaceae to Myrsinaceae". Cunninghamia. 5 (2): 376. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  9. ↑ Les Robinson - Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney, ISBN   978-0-7318-1211-0 page175

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