Goodenia xanthotricha

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Goodenia xanthotricha
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Status DECF P2.svg
Priority Two — Poorly Known Taxa (DEC)
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Goodeniaceae
Genus: Goodenia
Species:
G. xanthotricha
Binomial name
Goodenia xanthotricha

Goodenia xanthotricha, commonly known as yellow-haired goodenia, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to a restricted area in the southwest of Western Australia. It is a herb-like shrub with sticky foliage, linear to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, racemes of blue flowers, and cylindrical to oval fruit.

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Description

Goodenia xanthotricha is a herb-like shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 50 cm (20 in), its foliage covered with glandular hairs and sticky. The leaves are linear to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 15–35 mm (0.59–1.38 in) long and 2–7 mm (0.079–0.276 in) wide with toothed edges. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to 60 mm (2.4 in) long on a peduncle 2–4 mm (0.079–0.157 in) long with leaf-like bracts and narrow egg-shaped bracteoles 4–10 mm (0.16–0.39 in) long. Each flower is on a pedicel about 1 mm (0.039 in) long with narrow oblong sepals 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long and a blue corolla about 14 mm (0.55 in) long. The lower lobes of the corolla are about 5 mm (0.20 in) long with wings about 2 mm (0.079 in) wide. Flowering mainly occurs from November to February and the fruit is a cylindrical to oval capsule 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) long. [2] [3]

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia xanthotricha was first formally described in 1854 by Willem Hendrik de Vriese in the journal Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van de Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen te Haarlem. [4] [5] The specific epithet (xanthotricha) means "yellow hair". [6]

Distribution and habitat

Yellow-haired goodenia grows on gravelly hills near Hill River in the Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia. [2] [3]

Conservation status

This goodenia is classified as "Priority Two" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife, [2] meaning that it is poorly known and from only one or a few locations. [7]

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References

  1. "Goodenia xanthotricha". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Goodenia xanthotricha". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  3. 1 2 Carolin, Roger C. "Goodenia xanthotricha". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  4. "Goodenia xanthotricha". APNI. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  5. de Vriese, Willem H. (1854). "Goodenovieae". Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van de Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen te Haarlem. 10: 155. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  6. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 341. ISBN   9780958034180.
  7. "Conservation codes for Western Australian Flora and Fauna" (PDF). Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife. Retrieved 1 June 2021.