Goodenia heteromera F.Muell. APNI* 
Description: Perennial or annual herb with stolons to 20 cm long, with strigose hairs, cottony when young.
Leaves tufted on stolons, oblanceolate to obovate, 1–10 cm long, 3–10 mm wide, margins entire or toothed; axillary hairs dense.
Flowers in axils of tufted leaves; stalks 10–60 mm long, sometimes flexuose or geniculate. Sepals lanceolate, 2–3 mm long. Corolla 6–11 mm long, yellow, coarsely pubescent outside and near base inside; wings to 2 mm wide, obsolete above auricle. Indusium oblong to square, 1.2–1.4 mm long.
Fruit ovoid, 6–7 mm long; seed circular, 1.5–2.5 mm diam., brown, glossy, reticulate; wing 0.2–0.5 mm wide.
Flowering: May–November
Distribution and occurrence: Grows mostly in Eucalyptus camaldulensis and E. bicolor woodland on heavy soils; west from Narrabri.
NSW subdivisions: NWS, NWP, SWP, NFWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. S.A.
Text by R. C. Carolin
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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