Velleia glabrata - habit - south east of Bourke

''Goodenia glabrata'', commonly known as pee the bed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is native to mainland Australia. It is a mostly

glabrous Glabrousness () is the technical term for a lack of hair, down, setae, trichomes, or other such covering. A glabrous surface may be a natural characteristic of all or part of a plant or animal, or be due to loss because of a physical condition, ...

annual herb with ascending flowering stems, oblong to lance-shaped leaves with toothed edges, and yellow flowers.

Description

''Goodenia glabrata'' is a mostly

annual herb with erect stems up to long. Its leaves are oblong to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and up to wide with toothed to

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-shaped edges. The flowers are borne on an ascending flowering stem up to long with bracteoles up to long and joined at the base. The lower

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is long, and the petals are yellow, long and hairy, with wings about wide almost to the base of the lower sepal. Flowering mainly occurs from July to February and the fruit is a more or less spherical capsule containing seeds in diameter with wings about wide.

Taxonomy

This species was first formally described in 1967 by Roger Charles Carolin who gave it the name ''Velleia glabrata'' in the ''

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''. In 2020, Kelly Anne Shepherd and others transferred it to the genus '' Goodenia'' as ''G. glabrata'' in ''

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Distribution and habitat

''Goodenia glabrata'' grows in drier communities and occurs in all mainland states of Australia except Victoria. It is widespread in mainly inland areas of Western Australia, in the south of the Northern Territory, in the north-west of South Australia in Queensland, and in western New South Wales between Bourke and

Brewarrina Brewarrina (pronounced ''bree-warren-ah''; locally known as "Bre") is a town in north-west New South Wales, Australia on the banks of the Barwon River in Brewarrina Shire. It is east of Bourke and west of Walgett on the Kamilaroi Highway, a ...

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q106905753, from3=Q17480525 glabrata Eudicots of Western Australia Flora of South Australia Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland Flora of the Northern Territory Taxa named by Roger Charles Carolin Plants described in 1967