Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Goodenia decurrens

Flowering stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Peter Ollerenshaw, Blue Mouintains National Park

Common name

A goodenia

Family

Goodeniaceae

Where found

Dry forest, usually on sandstone cliffs or amongst sandstone boulders. Ranges north of the Hume Highway. Occasionally coastal.

Notes

Shrub to 0.8 m high. Stems mostly hairless, except for a line of hairs above each leaf base. Leaves alternating up the stems, 5–10 cm long, 10–25 mm wide, margins toothed, leaf bases continuing down the stems. Flowers yellow, 15–18 mm long, tubular, the tube split to the base, with 5 lobes, 2-lipped. Flowers on stalks to 30 mm long, in elongated clusters. Flowering: chiefly October–March. Seeds elliptic to round, about 1.8 mm long, pale brown.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Goodenia~decurrens  (accessed 5 April 2021)