Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Velleia paradoxa
Common name
Spur Velleia, Spurred Velleia
Family
Goodeniaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and grassland. Widespread. Rarely coastal or in the ranges.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.5 m high or sprawling, covered in soft hairs. Leaves in a basal rosette, 2–25 cm long, 8–35 mm wide, tips blunt, surfaces becoming hairless except for hairs on the midrib and margins, margins more or less toothed. Paired leaf-like bracteoles at each branch of the flowering stalks. Flowers yellow to orange inside, often fawn outside, tubular, the tube split, with 5 lobes, the lobes notched at the tips, hairy outside, hairless or sparsely hairy inside, 10-20 mm long, to 25 mm in diameter, with a slender spur to 8 mm long projecting between the lower sepals. 5 sepals 4-12 mm long. Flowering: mainly August–February.
Goodenia paradoxa in VICFLORA.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Velleia~paradoxa (accessed 8 February, 2021)
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