''Coopernookia'' is a plant genus of six species of small perennial shrubs that are all endemic to Australia. They have hairy, often sticky leaves, and flowers with

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Description

Plants in the genus ''Coopernookia'' are small shrubs covered with star-like, often glandular hairs that are often sticky. The leaves are sessile or almost so, sometimes have toothed edges and sometimes have their edges curled under. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches, surrounded by leaves. The flowers are zygomorphic, meaning that they have bilateral symmetry. Each flower has five sepals and a white, mauve or pinkish

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. The lobes of the corolla are unequal in size and broadly winged. The stamens are free from each other and the ovary is

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Taxonomy

The genus ''Coopernookia'' was first formally described in 1968 by Roger Carolin in ''

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''. The first species added to the new genus was ''

Coopernookia barbata ''Coopernookia'' is a plant genus of six species of small perennial shrubs that are all endemic to Australia. They have hairy, often sticky leaves, and flowers with bilateral symmetry. Description Plants in the genus ''Coopernookia'' are small s ...

'', previously known as ''Goodenia barbata'' R.Br., and it is therefore the

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species. Carolin considered ''Coopernookia'' to be intermediate between '' Scaevola'' and '' Goodenia''. The name ''Coopernookia'' refers to the Coopernook State Forest, where one of the species, '' C. chisholmii'' is common.

Species

Six species are accepted by the Australian Plant Census * ''

'' ( R.Br.) Carolin – N.S.W., Vic., Tas.(presumed extinct in Tasmania) * ''

Coopernookia chisholmii ''Coopernookia'' is a plant genus of six species of small perennial shrubs that are all endemic to Australia. They have hairy, often sticky leaves, and flowers with bilateral symmetry. Description Plants in the genus ''Coopernookia'' are small s ...

'' ( Blakely) Carolin – N.S.W. * ''

Coopernookia georgei ''Coopernookia'' is a plant genus of six species of small perennial shrubs that are all endemic to Australia. They have hairy, often sticky leaves, and flowers with bilateral symmetry. Description Plants in the genus ''Coopernookia'' are small s ...

'' Carolin – W.A. * ''

Coopernookia polygalacea ''Coopernookia'' is a plant genus of six species of small perennial shrubs that are all endemic to Australia. They have hairy, often sticky leaves, and flowers with bilateral symmetry. Description Plants in the genus ''Coopernookia'' are small s ...

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) Carolin – W.A. * ''

Coopernookia scabridiuscula ''Coopernookia'' is a plant genus of six species of small perennial shrubs that are all endemic to Australia. They have hairy, often sticky leaves, and flowers with bilateral symmetry. Description Plants in the genus ''Coopernookia'' are small s ...

'' Carolin – Qld. * ''

Coopernookia strophiolata ''Coopernookia strophiolata'' is a shrub in the Goodeniaceae family, endemic to Australia and found in both Western Australia and South Australia. Description ''Coopernookia strophiolata'' is a sticky, spreading (sometimes straggly) shrub gro ...

'' ( F.Muell.) Carolin – W.A., S.A.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5167935 Goodeniaceae Asterales genera Flora of Australia