''Goodenia rosea'', commonly known as pink velleia, is a species in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to inland areas of Western Australia. It is a perennial

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with lance-shaped to toothed or

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leaves, pink, lilac or white flowers on an ascending flower stem, and compressed fruit.

Description

''Goodenia rosea'' is an annual

, with prostrate to ascending flowering stems, the leaves lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, to more or less toothed or pinnatisect. The leaves are long and wide. The bracteoles are leaf-like and usually free from each other, the lower ones up to long and toothed or incised. The flowers are borne on a prostrate to ascending flowering stem up to long, each flower on a glabrous

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long. The 5 sepals are hairy, long and the petals are pink, lilac or white, about long and hairy on the back and in the throat. Flowering mainly occurs from May to October, and the fruit is a compressed capsule containing a more or less round, wrinkled seed in diameter with a wing wide.

Taxonomy

This species was first formally described in 1899 by Spencer Le Marchant Moore who gave it the name ''Velleia rosea'' in the ''

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''. In 2020,

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

Distribution and habitat

''Goodenia rosea'' occurs in the area between

Kalgoorlie Kalgoorlie is a city in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway. It is sometimes referred to as Kalgoorlie–Boulder, as the surrounding urban area includ ...

Cowcowing Cowcowing is a small town located just off the Koorda– Wyalkatchem road from Perth, south of Koorda and north of Wyalkatchem in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. The town originated as a railway siding and was later gazetted a ...

and near Geraldton in the Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Coolgardie,

Gascoyne The Gascoyne region is one of the nine administrative regions of Western Australia. It is located in the northwest of Western Australia, and consists of the local government areas of Carnarvon, Exmouth, Shark Bay and Upper Gascoyne. The Gasc ...

, Geraldton Sandplains, Great Victoria Desert, Murchison, Nullarbor and Yalgoo

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regions of inland Western Australia.

References

External links

Occurrence data for ''Velleia rosea''
from The Australasian Virtual Herbarium
Flickr images of ''Velleia rosea''
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Endemic flora of Western Australia Plants described in 1899 Taxa named by Spencer Le Marchant Moore