Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Goodenia heterophylla
Common name
Variable Goodenia
Family
Goodeniaceae
Where found
Dry forest, shrubland, and rocky areas. North from east of Bega. Coast and ranges. Occasionally elsewhere.
subsp. eglandulosa: North from east of Bega. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.
subsp. heterophylla: North from Tallaganda National Park SW of Braidwood. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands. Occasionally elsewhere.
subsp. montana: Tablelands and ranges north from Morton National Park. Coastal north from the Kings Highway.
Notes
More or less woody herb to 0.4 m high, or sprawling, with glandular- or simple-hairs. Basal leaves ephemeral. Stem leaves alternating up the stems, 1–3 cm long, 2–10 mm wide, margins entire to lobed. Flowers yellow, to 12 mm long, tubular, the tube split to the base, with 5 lobes, 2-lipped. Flowers on stalks to 25 mm long, in leafy clusters. Seeds oblong, 2 mm long, pale yellow, covered with minute bristles.
subsp. eglandulosa: Ascending herbs, covered with soft hairs, without glandular hairs. Leaves 1–3 cm long, 3–8 mm wide, margins toothed, curved down, sometimes with 2 basal lobes.
subsp. heterophylla: Erect or ascending herbs with glandular and simple hairs. Leaves 1–3 cm long, 2–10 mm wide, margins toothed or lobed, usually with 2 large lobes or teeth near the base, very rarely entire, margins sometimes curved down.
Rare Vic.
subsp. montana: Erect more or less shrubby plants, very hairy when young, rough with short simple hairs when mature. Leaves 1.5–2.5 cm long, mostly 2–3 mm wide, margins entire or nearly so, rolled down.
PlantNET description of species and key to subspecies: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Goodenia~heterophylla (accessed 6 April 2021)
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