Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Velleia lyrata

Flowering plants. Photographer Peter Greenaway, near Sydney

Common name

A Velleia

Family

Goodeniaceae

Where found

Damp situations in heath. Chiefly in the Sydney area and north from there. Blue Mountains. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Perennial herb, flowering stems to 0.50 m high. Almost hairless. Leaves in a basal rosette, 3–18 cm long, 10–40 mm wide, margins toothed to dissected with the terminal lobe much larger than the other lobes. Paired leaf-like bracteoles at each branch of the flowering stems. Flowers 10–15 mm long, yellow, obscurely spurred, hairy on both surfaces, tubular, the tube split, with 5 lobes, the lobes notched at the tips. Three sepals 4–8 mm long. Flowering: chiefly August–April.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Velleia~lyrata (accessed 10 February, 2021)