Goodenia granitica
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| Goodenia granitica | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Goodeniaceae |
| Genus: | Goodenia |
| Species: | G. granitica |
| Binomial name | |
| Goodenia granitica | |
Goodenia granitica is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an annual herb with spatula-shaped, sometimes lobed leaves, in a rosette at the base of the plant, and racemes of yellow flowers.
Goodenia granitica is an annual herb that typically grows to a height of 5–35 cm (2.0–13.8 in) and has hairy foliage. The leaves are arranged in a rosette at the base of the plant and are spatula-shaped, 6–115 mm (0.24–4.53 in) long and 1.8–16 mm (0.071–0.630 in) wide, sometimes lyre-shaped with lobes 6–13 mm (0.24–0.51 in) long and 0.5–3 mm (0.020–0.118 in) wide. The flowers are arranged in a raceme of three to twenty-four, 42–432 mm (1.7–17.0 in) long on a peduncle 30–130 mm (1.2–5.1 in) long, each flower on a pedicel 9–45 mm (0.35–1.77 in) long with leaf-like bracts at the base. The sepals are narrow egg-shaped, 3–4.2 mm (0.12–0.17 in) long and the corolla yellow and 13–15 mm (0.51–0.59 in) long. The lower lobes of the corolla are 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) long with wings 2.5–4 mm (0.098–0.157 in) wide. Flowering occurs from November to February and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule up to 3 mm (0.12 in) in diameter.[2][3]
Taxonomy and naming
Goodenia granitica was first formally described in 2007 by Leigh William Sage and Kelly Anne Shepherd in the journal Nuytsia from material collected by Sage near Chiddarcooping Hill in 2001.[2][4] The specific epithet (granitica) refers to the plant's growing near granite outcrops.[2]