''Goodenia perfoliata'' 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 mostly 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 sometimes deeply-toothed edges, and yellow flowers with bracteoles joined to form a disc-like funnel.

Description

''Goodenia perfoliata'' is a glabrous, perennial

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with erect or ascending flowering stems up to long. Its leaves are elliptic to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide, sometimes with deeply-toothed edges. The flowers are borne on the flowering stem with bracteoles fused to each other, forming a disc-like funnel up to in diameter. 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 broadly elliptic, up to long, and the petals are yellow, long and hairy mostly only on the outside, with wings about wide, almost to the base of the lower sepal. Flowering mainly occurs in spring, and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule about in diameter, containing a seed about in diameter with a narrow wing.

Taxonomy

This species was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown who gave it the name ''Velleia perfoliata'' in his '' Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen''. In 2020,

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

Distribution and habitat

''Goodenia perfoliata'' grows in open forest from near

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and the Colo River to the upper

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, in New South Wales.

Conservation status

This species is listed as "vulnerable" under the Australian Government '' Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999'' and the New South Wales Government '' Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016''.

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q106905773, from2=Q17480533 perfoliata Flora of New South Wales Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773) Plants described in 1810