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

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to Queensland. It is a

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 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 toothed, lance-shaped leaves, yellow flowers on an ascending to low-lying flower stem, and more or less spherical fruit containing round to elliptic seeds.

Description

''Goodenia subsolana'' is a perennial herb with toothed, lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, long and up to wide. The flowers are arranged on an ascending to low-lying flowering stem up to tall, 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 egg-shaped to elliptic, sometimes heart-shaped, long and the petals are yellowish, about long, with wings about wide and attached to the base of the lower sepal. The fruit is a more or less spherical capsule containing spherical to elliptic seeds about in diameter.

Taxonomy and naming

This species was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown who gave it the name ''Velleia pubescens'' in his '' Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen''. 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'' but the name ''G. pubescens'' was unavailable as it was preoccupied by a species described by Sieber ex

Spreng. Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (3 August 1766 – 15 March 1833) was a German botanist and physician who published an influential multivolume history of medicine, ''Versuch einer pragmatischen Geschichte der Arzneikunde'' (1792–99 in four vo ...

, now known as '' Scaevola albida''. Shepherd named the new species ''G. subsolana''. The specific apithet (''subsolana'') means "eastern-oriental", referring to the distribution of this species near coastal habitats of Queensland, in eastern Australia.

Distribution

''Goodenia subsolana'' is found near Shoalwater Bay and around

Herberton Herberton is a rural town and locality in the Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Herberton had a population of 855 people. Geography Herberton is on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland. It is situa ...

in eastern Queensland.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q106905783 subsolana Flora of Queensland Plants described in 2020 Taxa named by Kelly Anne Shepherd