Goodenia robusta
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| Woolly goodenia | |
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| Goodenia robusta in the Flinders Ranges | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Goodeniaceae |
| Genus: | Goodenia |
| Species: | G. robusta |
| Binomial name | |
| Goodenia robusta | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Goodenia geniculata var. robusta Benth. | |
Goodenia robusta, commonly known as woolly goodenia,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to southern Australia. It is an erect or ascending perennial herb with crowded, hairy, elliptic to narrow oblong leaves at the base of the plant, and racemes of yellow flowers.
Goodenia robusta is an erect to ascending perennial herb that typically grows to a height of up to 40 cm (16 in). The leaves at the base of the plant are hairy, crowded, elliptic to narrow oblong, 40–120 mm (1.6–4.7 in) long and 8–20 mm (0.31–0.79 in) wide, often with wavy edges. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to 250 mm (9.8 in) long with leaf-like bracts, each flower on a pedicel 15–50 mm (0.59–1.97 in) long. The sepals are lance-shaped, about 5 mm (0.20 in) long and the corolla is yellow and about 15 mm (0.59 in) long. The lower lobes of the corolla are 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) long with wings about 2 mm (0.079 in) wide. Flowering mainly occurs from September to January and the fruit is an elliptic capsule, about 10 mm (0.39 in) long.[2][3][4]