Goodenia elongata Labill.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Goodeniaceae > Goodenia

Characteristics

Erect or ascending herb to 40 cm tall, glabrous or with sometimes ±appressed hairs. Leaves usually cauline, oblanceolate, dentate to entire; lamina mostly 5-9 cm long, 4-20 mm wide. Flowers in racemes to 10 cm long, or subumbels; bracts leaf-like; pedicel 4-11 cm long, indistinctly articulate; bracteole absent. Sepals lanceolate, 3.5-4 mm long. Corolla 12-20 mm long, with few hairs towards base inside, without enations, auriculate; abaxial lobes 4-6.5 mm long; wings 1.5-2 mm wide, narrower on adaxial lobe above auricle. Indusium broadly oblong, 1-1.5 mm long. Ovules 25-35. Fruit ovoid, 8-9 mm long. Seeds elliptic, 3.5 mm long, brown, reticulate; wing c. 0.2 mm wide, brownish.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Mature height (meter) 0.4
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Environment

Grows in open forest, often in damper sites.
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-11

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Images

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Distribution

Goodenia elongata world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:383820-1
WFO ID wfo-0000707342
COL ID 3H288
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Synonyms

Goodenia elongata