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Genus Coopernookia Family Goodeniaceae

Synonyms: Coopernookia productum APNI*

Description: Perennial subshrubs with stellate and usually glandular hairs, sometimes viscid.

Leaves sessile or nearly so.

Flowers in terminal leafy thyrses or racemes, bracteolate; pedicels articulate. Sepals 5, free, subulate. Corolla white to mauve or pinkish, with an obscure anterior pouch; lobes unequal, broadly winged, with long stiff retrorse bristles inside; auricle obsolete. Stamens free from each other, epigynous. Ovary inferior, incompletely 2-locular; style simple; indusium with long bristles on lips; ovules 2–8.

Fruit a capsule; seeds ovoid, glossy, carunculate, not winged.


Distribution and occurrence: World: 6 species, endemic Australia. Australia: Qld, N.S.W, Vic., S.A., W.A.

Text by R. C. Carolin
Taxon concept:

 Key to the species 
1Lower surface of leaves glabrous or glandular-hairy and with very few to no stellate hairsCoopernookia barbata
Lower surface of leaves tomentose with stellate or substellate hairsCoopernookia chisholmii

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