Goodenia armstrongiana De Vriese

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Goodeniaceae > Goodenia

Characteristics

Erect to decumbent herb, with coarse, antrorse hairs; stems to 60 cm long. Cauline leaves ±decurrent, ovate to narrowly elliptic, dentate to entire, with few hairs mostly on margins and on main vein below; lamina 1-4 cm long, 2-12 mm wide. Flowers in racemes to 40 cm long; bracts leaf-like; pedicel divergent, 10-30 mm long, not articulate; bracteoles absent. Sepals lanceolate, 1-2 mm long. Corolla 8-12 mm long, pubescent inside, without enations; abaxial lobes 3-4 mm long; wings 1.5-2 mm wide. Indusium broadly obovate, 1.5 mm long, with long hairs at base beneath. Ovules 10-20. Fruit ovoid, 4-6 mm long. Seeds elliptic, c. 3 mm long, without wing, verrucose, granulose, pale yellow-brown.
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Erect strigose annual up to c. 30 cm high, with few long and slender branches from the base. Leaves nearly exclusively cauline, sessile, linear-lanceolate, up to 3 cm by 1½ mm, herbaceous, entire, acute. Flowers solitary, axillary, on patent, up to 2 cm long, filiform pedicels; bracteoles 0. Calyx lobes lanceolate, 1½ by 0.3 mm, acute. Corolla 1 cm long, yellow, at base reddish, thinly villous, the lobes broadly winged. Capsules ellipsoid, 5 mm long. Seeds c. 10, ovate, 1½ by 1 mm, granulate, with a marginal rib.
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Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Open sandy patch in savannah woodland; alt. c. 25 m. Fl. fr.--08.
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Found in dry sclerophyll woodland and savannah.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Images

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Distribution

Goodenia armstrongiana world distribution map, present in Australia and Papua New Guinea

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:383781-1
WFO ID wfo-0000707277
COL ID 3H26C
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Synonyms

Goodenia armstrongiana