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spiked goodenia
Goodenia stelligera
Goodenia stelligera, commonly referred to as spiked goodenia, is a flowering plant that is endemic to Australia. This species has an erect stem, up to 40 cm (16 in) tall. It is a tufted, perennial herb with leaves forming a rosette around the base of the plant. Leaves are thick, linear to oblanceolate, up to 5–25 cm long and about 1-12mm wide, sometimes entire, but usually toothed. Stem leaves are reduced or absent. The yellow, tubular flowers are 13
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Description
Goodenia stelligera is an erect, glabrous herb that typically grows to a height of 60 cm (24 in) and forms adventitious roots. The leaves form a rosette at the base of the plant and are linear to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, sometimes with small teeth on the edges, 50–250 mm (2.0–9.8 in) long, 1–12 mm (0.039–0.472 in) wide and sessile. The flowers are arranged in racemes or thyrses up to 600 mm (24 in) long with linear to lance-shaped bracts 10–25 mm (0.39–0.98 in) long, each flower sessile or on a pedicel up to 4 mm (0.16 in) long. The sepals are linear, 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long and the corolla is yellow, 13–15 mm (0.51–0.59 in) long with whitish, star-shaped hairs. The lower lobes of the corolla are 7–8 mm (0.28–0.31 in) long with wings 1.5–2.5 mm (0.059–0.098 in) wide. Flowering mainly occurs from August to February and the fruit is an oval capsule, 5–9 mm (0.20–0.35 in) long that opens to release elliptic brown seeds about 1.5 mm (0.059 in) long.
Range & habitat
Spiked goodenia grows in swamps on sandstone in near-coastal areas from south-eastern Queensland to near Braidwood in New South Wales.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
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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 851475.