Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Goodenia elongata
Common name
Lanky Goodenia
Family
Goodeniaceae
Where found
Forest, often in damper sites. Widespread south of the Hume and Sturt Highways.
Notes
Short-lived perennial herb to 0.50 m high. Stems with spreading or appressed simple hairs, or hairless. Leaves in a loose basal rosette, mostly alternating up the stems, 2–9 cm long, 4–20 mm wide, tips pointed to blunt, surfaces hairy to becoming hairless, margins toothed to entire. Flowers 12–20 mm long, yellow, tubular, the tube split to the base, with 5 lobes, 2-lipped. Flowers on stalks 4–11 cm long, single. Flowering: mainly October–February. Seeds elliptic, 3.5 mm long, brown, wing about 0.2 mm wide, brownish.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Goodenia~elongata (accessed 5 April 2021)
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