''Goodenia parvisepta'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is

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to a small area of

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. It is a glabrous

perennial A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years. The term ('' per-'' + '' -ennial'', "through the years") is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter-lived annuals and biennials. The term is also wide ...

herb with erect flowering stems, lance-shaped leaves with toothed or lobed edges, and yellow flowers.

Description

''Goodenia parvisepta'' is a glabrous, perennial

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with erect or ascending flowering stems up to long. Its leaves are lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide with toothed or lobed edges. The flowers are borne on the flowering stem with bracteoles up to long and free from each other. The lower

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 coined b ...

is elliptic, long, and the petals are yellow, long and hairy only on the outside, with wings about wide, almost to the base of the lower sepal. Flowering mainly occurs from September to January and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule containing seeds about in diameter.

Taxonomy

This species was first formally described in 1967 by Roger Charles Carolin who gave it the name ''Velleia parvisepta'' in the ''

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales The Linnean Society of New South Wales promotes ''the Cultivation and Study of the Science of Natural History in all its Branches'' and was founded in Sydney, New South Wales ( Australia) in 1874 and incorporated in 1884. History The Society suc ...

''. In 2020,

Kelly Anne Shepherd Kelly Anne Shepherd (born 1970) is an Australian botanist, who has published some 91 names. Career Shepherd earned a B.Sc. (Hon) in 1992 with a thesis entitled "Faecal Analysis of Mammalian Herbivores in the Perup Forest, Western Australia." ...

and others transferred it to the genus '' Goodenia'' as ''G. parvisepta'' in '' Australian Systematic Botany''.

Distribution and habitat

''Goodenia parvisepta'' grows in damp situations in the Goonoo State Forest in New South Wales.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q106905771 parvisepta Flora of New South Wales Taxa named by Roger Charles Carolin Plants described in 1967