Goodenia glabrata

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Goodenia glabrata, commonly known as pee the bed,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is native to mainland Australia. It is a mostly glabrous annual herb with ascending flowering stems, oblong to lance-shaped leaves with toothed edges, and yellow flowers.

Goodenia glabrata
Near Bourke
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Goodeniaceae
Genus: Goodenia
Species:
G. glabrata
Binomial name
Goodenia glabrata
Occurrence data for Goodenia glabrata from AVH
Synonyms[1]

Velleia glabrata Carolin

Habit

Description edit

Goodenia glabrata is a mostly glabrous annual herb with erect stems up to 30 cm (12 in) long. Its leaves are oblong to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 40–80 mm (1.6–3.1 in) long and up to 20 mm (0.79 in) wide with toothed to lyre-shaped edges. The flowers are borne on an ascending flowering stem up to 380 mm (15 in) long with bracteoles up to 2 mm (0.079 in) long and joined at the base. The lower sepal is 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) long, and the petals are yellow, 12–14 mm (0.47–0.55 in) long and hairy, with wings about 2 mm (0.079 in) wide almost to the base of the lower sepal. Flowering mainly occurs from July to February and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule containing seeds 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) in diameter with wings about 1 mm (0.039 in) wide.[3][4]

Taxonomy edit

This species was first formally described in 1967 by Roger Charles Carolin who gave it the name Velleia glabrata in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.[4][5] In 2020, Kelly Anne Shepherd and others transferred it to the genus Goodenia as G. glabrata in Australian Systematic Botany.[6][7]

Distribution and habitat edit

Goodenia glabrata grows in drier communities and occurs in all mainland states of Australia except Victoria. It is widespread in mainly inland areas of Western Australia,[2] in the south of the Northern Territory,[8] in the north-west of South Australia[9] in Queensland, and in western New South Wales between Bourke and Brewarrina.[10][11]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Goodenia glabrata". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Velleia glabrata". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  3. ^ Carolin, Roger C. "Velleia glabrata". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
  4. ^ a b Carolin, Roger C. (1967). "The Genus Velleia Sm". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 92 (1): 46–47. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
  5. ^ "Velleia glabrata". APNI. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  6. ^ Kelly Anne Shepherd; Brendan J Lepschi; Eden A Johnson; Andrew G Gardner; Emily B Sessa; Rachel S Jabaily (7 July 2020). "The concluding chapter: recircumscription of Goodenia (Goodeniaceae) to include four allied genera with an updated infrageneric classification". PhytoKeys. 152: 88. doi:10.3897/PHYTOKEYS.152.49604. ISSN 1314-2003. PMC 7360637. PMID 32733134. Wikidata Q98177294.
  7. ^ "Goodenia glabrata". APNI. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  8. ^ "Goodenia glabrata". Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  9. ^ "Velleia glabrata". State Herbarium of South Australia. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  10. ^ "Velleia glabrata". Rloyal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  11. ^ "Velleia glabrata – Occurrence records". The Australasian Virtual Herbarium. Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria. Retrieved 11 September 2018.