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Goodenia willisiana Carolin
Family Goodeniaceae
Goodenia willisiana Carolin APNI*

Synonyms: Goodenia sp. C sensu Jacobs & Pickard (1981) APNI*

Description: Erect or ascending herb to 20 cm high, whitish tomentose with stellate and felted multicellular hairs.

Leaves mostly on short basal stems, narrow-elliptic to lanceolate, 4–9 cm long, 4–18 mm wide, narrowing basally, margins entire or sinuate, hairy on both surfaces.

Flowers solitary in leaf axils; stalks to 100 mm long, bracteoles present. Sepals narrow-oblong, to 3.5 mm long. Corolla to 15 mm long, yellow, pubescent outside or sparsely hairy only at apex, ± glabrous inside, without enations, ± auriculate; wings c. 2.5 mm wide. Indusium transverse-elliptic, folded; orifice slightly convex.

Fruit ovoid, c. 10 mm long; valves 2, separated to middle, bifid; seeds elliptic, c. 2 mm long, yellow, bristly.


Habit
Photo Tanja Lenz

Herbarium
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Flowering: chiefly August–February

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in mallee and associated communities, south from Menindee.
NSW subdivisions: SWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Vic. S.A.
AVH map***

Text by R. C. Carolin
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)


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