''Goodenia konigsbergeri'' is a species of flowering plant in the family

Goodeniaceae Goodeniaceae is a family (biology), family of flowering plants in the Order (biology), order Asterales. It contains about 404 species in twelve genera. The family is distributed mostly in Australia, except for the genus ''Scaevola (plant), Scaevo ...

and is

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to Southeast Asia. It is a creeping

stoloniferous In biology, stolons (from Latin '' stolō'', genitive ''stolōnis'' – "branch"), also known as runners, are horizontal connections between organisms. They may be part of the organism, or of its skeleton; typically, animal stolons are external ...

herb In general use, herbs are a widely distributed and widespread group of plants, excluding vegetables and other plants consumed for macronutrients, with savory or aromatic properties that are used for flavoring and garnishing food, for medicinal ...

with egg-shaped to spatula-shaped leaves and solitary pale yellow and white flowers.

Description

''Goodenia konigsbergeri'' is a creeping herb with stems up to long, forming stolons apart along the stems. The leaves are arranged in a rosette at the base of the plant and along the stems and are egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, to spatula-shaped, long and wide, on a petiole long. The leaves are slightly fleshy, pale green and have a few scattered teeth on the edges. The flowers are long and arranged singly in leaf axils on a

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long. The

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s are lance-shaped, long, the corolla pale yellow and white, long. Flowering occurs from December to August and the fruit is a slightly flattened spherical capsule about in diameter.

Taxonomy and naming

This goodenia was first formally described in 1913 by

Cornelis Andries Backer Cornelis Andries Backer (1874–1963) was a Dutch botanist and pteridologist. He was born on 18 September 1874 in Oudenbosch and died on 22 February 1963 at Heemstede, The Netherlands. He stayed thirty years in the Dutch East Indies and did rese ...

who gave it the name ''Selliera konigsbergeri'' in the ''Bulletin du Jardin botanique de Buitenzorg''. In 1916, Isaäc Boldingh changed the name to ''Goodenia konigsbergeri'' in ''Zakflora voor der Landouwstreken op Java''.

Distribution and habitat

''Goodenia konigsbergeri'' grows as a weed of dry rice-field at altitudes from sea level to an altitude of in Cambodia, Java, the

Lesser Sunda Islands The Lesser Sunda Islands or nowadays known as Nusa Tenggara Islands ( id, Kepulauan Nusa Tenggara, formerly ) are an archipelago in Maritime Southeast Asia, north of Australia. Together with the Greater Sunda Islands to the west they make up t ...

, Thailand and Vietnam.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q17480062 konigsbergeri Flora of Southeast Asia Plants described in 1913