Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Velleia perfoliata

Common name

A Velleia

Family

Goodeniaceae

Where found

Open forest, heath, and rocky areas. Often found growing on moss and lichen mats formed on rock. Hawkesbury district. Upper Hunter Valley, north of the area covered by this key.

Notes

Perennial herb, flowering stalks to 0.5 m high. Mostly hairless and glaucous. Leaves in a basal rosette, usually 10–12 cm long, mostly 30–40 mm wide, spoon-shaped, margins deeply toothed to entire. Fused leaf-like bracteoles form a funnel at each branch of the flowering stalks. Flowers 11–13 mm long, yellow, with a short spur, tubular, the tube split, with 5 lobes, the lobes notched at the tips, mostly hairy outside, more or less hairless inside. Three sepals 5–8 mm long. Flowering: spring.  

Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

NSW Threatened Species profile with photo:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10827 (accessed 8 January 2021)

PlantNET description with photos:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Velleia~perfoliata (accessed 8 January 2021)