Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Goodenia ovata
Hop goodenia
Goodeniaceae
Forest, woodland, heath, roadsides and disturbed sites. The prostrate form occurs on rocky coastal headlands. Mainly coast and ranges. Occasionally elsewhere.
Shrub to 2 m tall, occasionally prostrate. Very young stems ribbed, densely hairy with brownish hairs, becoming hairless and sticky to varnished. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3-8 cm long, 10-40 mm wide, tips pointed, surfaces covered with minute glands, toothed, the teeth at first with glands at their tips, leaf tips pointed. Flowers yellow, 9-19 mm long, tubular, the tube split to the base, with 5 lobes, 2-lipped. Flowers on stalks to 40 mm long, in leafy clusters, sometimes single. Flowers all year. Seeds elliptic, about 2 mm long. bristly, pale brown to whitish.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Goodenia~ovata (accessed 6 April 2021)
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