Appearance
"Goodenia decurrens" is an erect, glabrous undershrub that typically grows to a height of 80 cm. The leaves are decurrent, sessile, lance-shaped to elliptic, 50–100 mm long, 10–25 mm wide with toothed edges. The flowers are arranged in racemes or thyrses up to 450 mm long with linear to lance-shaped bracts up to 10 mm long at the base, each flower on a pedicel up to 10 mm long. The sepals are narrow egg-shaped, 4–7 mm long and the petals are yellow, 15–18 mm long. The lower lobes of the corolla are 7–8 mm long with wings 2–3 mm wide. Flowering mainly occurs from October to March and the fruit is an oval capsule about 9 mm long.Naming
"Goodenia decurrens" was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in "Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen". The specific epithet refers to the decurrent leaves.Distribution
This goodenia grows on sandstone cliffs in forest between Blackheath and Wollar in New South Wales.References:
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