Goodenia pumilio R.Br.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Goodeniaceae > Goodenia

Characteristics

Prostrate herb, stoloniferous, with scattered, stellate hairs; stems to 10 cm long. Leaves basal and in rosettes on stolons, ±petiolate, obovate to oblanceolate, entire or obscurely toothed, sometimes glabrescent; lamina 8-25 mm long, 4-10 mm wide. Flowers in ±condensed terminal racemes to 5 cm long, or sometimes solitary in axils of basal leaves; bracts leaf-like; pedicel 7-17 mm long, not articulate; bracteoles absent. Sepals lanceolate, largest c. 1 mm long. Corolla 1.0-1.5 mm long, ±glabrous inside; lobes ±equal, 0.5-1 mm long; wings obsolete. Indusium hemispherical, c. 0.2 mm long. Ovules c. 40 in several rows. Fruit obovoid, c. 2 mm long; valves entire. Seeds compressed, almost orbicular, c. 0.2 mm diam., glossy, smooth, brown; wing almost undifferentiated.
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Erect or prostrate, fairly densely stel-late-hairy, annual or perennial herb. Leaves radical-rosulate; (broad-)ovate to spathulate, up to 6 by 3 cm but usually much smaller, herbaceous, attenuate at base; margin entire; apex blunt. Flowers solitary, axillary, 4-5 mm long, hairy; pedicel c. 1 cm long; bracteoles 0. Corolla c. 3 mm long, dark reddish. Capsules (ovoid-)oblong, 3-4 mm long. Seeds many, orbicular, small.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Savannah grassland, c. 10-35 m. Fl. fr.--08.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Distribution

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

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:119164-3
WFO ID wfo-0000707528
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Synonyms

Goodenia pumilio