''Goodia pubescens'', commonly known as golden tip,
is a flowering plant in the family
. It has yellow pea flowers, bluish-green leaves and found in Victoria and New South Wales.
Description
''Goodia pubescens'' is a small tree or shrub to high, new branchlets thickly covered with flattened or spreading hairs. The leaves are bluish-green, divided into 3 leaflets, smaller leaves are oval to oval-wedge shaped or elliptic, broader at the apex. The leaves at the end of branches mostly egg-shaped, long, wide with occasional hairs on upper and lower surface, and the
petiole long. The flowers are borne in
raceme
A raceme ( or ) or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing flowers having short floral stalks along the shoots that bear the flowers. The oldest flowers grow close to the base and new flowers are produced as the s ...
s long, flowers yellow with red or brown markings, long on a
pedicel
Pedicle or pedicel may refer to:
Human anatomy
*Pedicle of vertebral arch, the segment between the transverse process and the vertebral body, and is often used as a radiographic marker and entry point in vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty procedures
...
long. The
calyx
Calyx or calyce (plural "calyces"), from the Latin ''calix'' which itself comes from the Ancient Greek ''κάλυξ'' (''kálux'') meaning "husk" or "pod", may refer to:
Biology
* Calyx (anatomy), collective name for several cup-like structures ...
long, covered in short, soft hairs. Flowering occurs from September to November and the fruit is an oblong to narrowly-elliptic
pod
Pod or POD may refer to:
Biology
* Pod (fruit), a type of fruit of a flowering plant
* Husk or pod of a legume
* Pod of whales or other marine mammals
* "-pod", a suffix meaning "foot" used in taxonomy
Electronics and computing
* Proper ort ...
long narrowing to a stalk.
Taxonomy and naming
''Goodia pubescens'' was first formally described in 1810 by
Sims and the description was published in ''
Botanical Magazine''.
The
specific epithet
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
(''pubescens'') means "downy with soft, fine hairs".
Distribution and habitat
Golden tip grows in a variety of situations, dry sclerophyll forests, sheltered valleys and near rainforests.
References
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Mirbelioids
Fabales of Australia
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Victoria (Australia)