Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Velleia montana
Common name
Mountain velleia
Family
Goodeniaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, moist grassland, cold mountain valleys, permanently moist soils, and swamps. ACT, the mountains to the west, and Kosciuszko National Park. Mountains on the tablelands south of the Kings Highway. Western parts of the ranges.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.15 m high, hairless or hairy. Leaves basal in a rosette, 1–8 cm long, 5–30 mm wide, tips rounded, surfaces variably hairy or becoming hairless, margins toothed or entire, usually conspicuously fringed at least when young. Flowers to 10 mm long, 4-8 mm in diameter, yellow, obscurely spurred, hairy outside and inside, tubular, the tube split, with 5 lobes, the lobes notched at the tips. Three sepals 3-6 mm long. Flowers clustered towards the centre of the rosette, the stalks usually shorter than the leaves. Flowering: mostly November–February.
Goodenia montana 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~montana (accessed 8 February, 2021)
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