Goodenia pumilio

Goodenia pumilio
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Goodeniaceae
Genus: Goodenia
Species:
G. pumilio
Binomial name
Goodenia pumilio

Goodenia pumilio is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is native to northern Australia and New Guinea. It is a prostrate, stolon-forming herb with egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves in rosettes, and racemes of small, dark reddish-purple flowers.

Description

Goodenia pumilio is a prostrate, stolon-forming herb with stems up to 50 cm (20 in) with scattered, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are egg-shaped to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, arranged in rosettes at the base of the plant and on the stolons, 8–25 mm (0.31–0.98 in) long and 4–10 mm (0.16–0.39 in) wide. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to 50 mm (2.0 in) long, sometimes singly in leaf axils, with leaf-like bracts 1.5–2 mm (0.059–0.079 in) long. Each flower is on a pedicel 7–17 mm (0.28–0.67 in) long with lance-shaped sepals up to 1 mm (0.039 in) long. The petals are dark reddish purple, 1.0–1.5 mm (0.039–0.059 in) long, the lower lobes of the corolla 0.5–1 mm (0.020–0.039 in) long and lacking wings. Flowering mainly occurs from April to July and the fruit is an oval capsule about 2 mm (0.079 in) long.[2][3]

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia pumilio was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.[4][5] The specific epithet (pumilio) means "dwarf".[6]

Distribution and habitat

This goodenia grows in marshes and swamps in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, northern parts of the Northern Territory and Queensland and in New Guinea.[2][3][7]

References

  1. ^ "Goodenia pumilio". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  2. ^ a b Carolin, Roger C. "Goodenia pumilio". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Goodenia pumilio". Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  4. ^ "Goodenia pumilio". APNI. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  5. ^ Brown, Robert (1810). Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. London. p. 579. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  6. ^ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 287. ISBN 9780958034180.
  7. ^ "Goodenia pumilio". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.