Goodenia paradoxa, commonly known as spur velleia[2] or spur goodenia,[3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae, and is endemic to Australia. It is a perennial herb covered with soft hairs, and has egg-shaped to elliptic leaves with toothed edges and yellow flowers on an ascending flowering stem.
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Goodeniaceae |
| Genus: | Goodenia |
| Species: | G. paradoxa
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Description
editGoodenia paradoxa is a perennial herb covered with soft hairs, and has ascending to prostrate flowering stems up to 60 cm (24 in) long. The leaves are egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, or elliptic, 70–250 mm (2.8–9.8 in) long, 15–35 mm (0.59–1.38 in) wide with toothed edges and forming a rosette at the base of the plant. There are oblong to egg-shaped bracteoles up to 40 mm (1.6 in) long at the base of the flowers, and the sepals oblong to egg-shaped, 4–9 mm (0.16–0.35 in) long. The petals are yellow, 10–20 mm (0.39–0.79 in) long with wings up to 3 mm (0.12 in) long to the base of the lower sepal. Flowering mostly occurs between August and February and the fruit is a compressed oval capsule 7–9 mm (0.28–0.35 in) long containing smooth round seeds 3–5 mm (0.12–0.20 in) in diameter.[2][3][4]
Taxonomy
editThe species was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown who gave it the name Velleia paradoxa in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.[5][6] In 2020, Kelly Anne Shepherd and others transferred it to the genus Goodenia as G. paradoxa, based on nuclear, chloroplast and mitochondrial data.[7]
Distribution and habitat
editGoodenia paradoxa is widespread in Victoria, New South Wales and in the south-east of South Australia and southern Queensland.[4][8] It grows in sclerophyll forest and grassland.[4][2] There are also records from a few places in Tasmania, including Hobart, Launceston, the Northern Midlands Southern Midlands and the Derwent Valley, but the species is listed as "vulnerable" under the Tasmanian Government Threatened Species Protection Act 1995.[9]
References
edit- ^ a b "Goodenia paradoxa". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
- ^ a b c "Velleia paradoxa R.Br". PlantNET – FloraOnline. National Herbarium of NSW. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
- ^ a b Jeanes, Jeff A.; Walsh, Neville G. "Goodenia paradoxa". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
- ^ a b c Carolin, R.C. "Flora of Australia online:Velleia paradoxa". Data derived from Flora of Australia Volume 35 (1992), ABRS, ©Commonwealth of Australia. Accessed April 1, 2018.
- ^ "Velleia paradoxa". APNI. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
- ^ Brown, Robert (1810). Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van-Diemen. London. p. 580. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
- ^ Kelly Anne Shepherd; Brendan J Lepschi; Eden A Johnson; Andrew G Gardner; Emily B Sessa; Rachel S Jabaily (7 July 2020). "The concluding chapter: recircumscription of Goodenia (Goodeniaceae) to include four allied genera with an updated infrageneric classification". PhytoKeys. 152: 88. doi:10.3897/PHYTOKEYS.152.49604. ISSN 1314-2003. PMC 7360637. PMID 32733134. Wikidata Q98177294.
- ^ "Velleia paradoxa – Occurrence records". The Australasian Virtual Herbarium. Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
- ^ "Velleia paradoxa" (PDF). Tasmanian Government, Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania. Retrieved 21 April 2024.