Goodenia rostrivalvis Domin APNI*
Description: Ascending ± glossy shrub to c. 60 cm high, glabrous.
Leaves cauline, obovate to oblanceolate, 3.5–7 cm long, 8–20 mm wide, tapering basally, margins toothed.
Flowers in thyrses or racemes on scapes which are leafless towards top; stalks to 5 cm long, bracteoles present. Sepals linear to lanceolate, 5–6 mm long. Corolla 14–18 mm long, yellow, covered with mostly yellowish stellate and some white cottony hairs outside, with few short hairs inside, with enations, ± auriculate; wings c. 2.5 mm wide. Indusium depressed-obovate.
Fruit ovoid, c. 10 mm long; valves 2, split to base; seeds elliptic, 1.5–1.7 mm long, brown, glossy, reticulate-pitted.
Flowering: October–April
Distribution and occurrence: Grows on damp south-facing sandstone cliffs in Blue Mtns, in the Wentworth Falls area, rare.
NSW subdivisions: CT
Text by R. C. Carolin Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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