Goodenia havilandii

Maiden & Betche
Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 38: 250 (1913)
Taxonomic status Accepted
Occurrence status Present
Origin Native
Degree of establishment Native
Threat status
FFG: Critically Endangered (CR)

Prostrate to ascending annual or short-lived perennial to 30 cm high; stems glandular-viscid with a few strigose hairs. Leaves glandular-pubescent; basal leaves petiolate, rosette, linear to lanceolate, 2–9 cm long, 2–15 mm wide, acute, entire or occasionally with few small remote teeth; cauline leaves smaller, few and distant, becoming linear or filiform upwards. Inflorescences secund racemes to 20 cm long; pedicels articulate, 8–15 mm long; bracteoles absent. Sepals elliptic, c. 1.5 mm long; corolla 3–12 mm long, glandular-pubescent outside and a few simple hairs towards base inside, yellow, abaxial lobes 1–3 mm long, wings 0.5–1 mm wide; indusium semi-elliptic; ovules 15–20. Fruit globose, 4–5 mm diam., valves entire; seeds orbicular, c. 2mm diam., black, glossy, wing c. 0.3 mm wide. Flowers most of the year.

MuM. WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW. In Victoria collected once from shrubland on a sandy dune at Raak Plain near Mildura.

Created by: Daniel Ohlsen, 25 Feb. 2016
Updated by: Val Stajsic, 10 Jan. 2019
Goodenia havilandii (distribution map) Spinning