''Velleia montana'', commonly known as mountain velleia, is a flowering plant in the family

Goodeniaceae Goodeniaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Asterales. It contains about 404 species in twelve genera. The family is distributed mostly in Australia, except for the genus '' Scaevola'', which is pantropical. Its species are found ac ...

. It is a small, perennial herb with tubular yellow flowers, mainly growing in woodland and sub-alpine grasslands in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.

Description

''Velleia montana'' is a small herbaceous plant to high that forms a rosette. The leaves are oblanceolate to obovate, long, wide with toothed or smooth margins. The three

sepal A sepal () is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants). Usually green, sepals typically function as protection for the flower in bud, and often as support for the petals when in bloom., p. 106 The term ''sepalum'' was coine ...

s are separated, upper sepal oval to oblong-shaped and long. The yellow corolla is long, inner and outer surface covered with short, soft hairs. The scapes grow horizontally to high and mostly shorter than the leaves. The

bracteoles In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves. They may be smaller, larger, or o ...

are more or less linear-shaped, separated, up to long. Flowering occurs from November to February and the fruit is a more or less spherical shaped, flattened, hairy capsule about in diameter.

Taxonomy and naming

''Velleia montana'' was first formally described in 1847 by

Joseph Dalton Hooker Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. For twenty years he served as director of ...

and the description was published in the ''London Journal of Botany''. The specific epithet ''montana'' refers to mountains or coming from mountains.Archibald William Smith

Distribution and habitat

Mountain velleia grows at higher altitudes in woodland, subalpine swamps and grassland south of Boonoo Boonoo National Park, Tasmania and Victoria.

References

External links

Occurrence data for ''Velleia montana''
from The Australasian Virtual Herbarium

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