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Goodenia scaevolina
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Goodenia scaevolina

Goodenia scaevolina is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the north-west of Australia. It a perennial subshrub with egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves, the narrower end towards the base, and thyrses of blue flowers.

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Description

Goodenia scaevolina is a much-branched perennial subshrub that typically grows to a height of up to 80 cm (31 in), and has sticky foliage. The leaves on the stems are egg-shaped to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 40–70 mm (1.6–2.8 in) long and 20–30 mm (0.79–1.18 in) wide. The flowers are arranged in thyrses up to 350 mm (14 in) long on peduncles 10–50 mm (0.39–1.97 in) with leaf-like bracts. Each flower is on a pedicel 1–7 mm (0.039–0.276 in) long with elliptic to linear bracteoles 5–10 mm (0.20–0.39 in) long. The sepals are lance-shaped to narrow elliptic, 5–10 mm (0.20–0.39 in) long, the corolla blue, 20–25 mm (0.79–0.98 in) long. The lower lobes of the corolla are 10–12 mm (0.39–0.47 in) long with wings 1.5–3.5 mm (0.059–0.138 in) wide.

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Range & habitat

This goodenia grows in scrub in shallow, stony soil in the Kimberley region of Western Australia and the north-west of the Northern Territory.

Wikipedia: “Distribution”

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 851469.