''Goodenia subsolana'' is a species of flowering plant in the family

Goodeniaceae Goodeniaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Asterales. It contains about 404 species in twelve genera. The family is distributed mostly in Australia, except for the genus '' Scaevola'', which is pantropical. Its species are found ac ...

and is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to Queensland. It is a

perennial In horticulture, the term perennial ('' per-'' + '' -ennial'', "through the year") is used to differentiate a plant from shorter-lived annuals and biennials. It has thus been defined as a plant that lives more than 2 years. The term is also ...

herb Herbs are a widely distributed and widespread group of plants, excluding vegetables, with savory or aromatic properties that are used for flavoring and garnishing food, for medicinal purposes, or for fragrances. Culinary use typically distingu ...

with toothed, lance-shaped leaves, yellow flowers on an ascending to low-lying flower stem, and more or less spherical fruit containing round to elliptic seeds.

Description

''Goodenia subsolana'' is a perennial herb with toothed, lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, long and up to wide. The flowers are arranged on an ascending to low-lying flowering stem up to tall, with

bracteoles In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves in size, color, shape or texture. They also look ...

up to long and free from each other. The lower

sepal A sepal () is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants). Usually green, sepals typically function as protection for the flower in bud, and often as support for the petals when in bloom., p. 106 Etymology The term ''sepalum'' ...

is egg-shaped to elliptic, sometimes heart-shaped, long and the petals are yellowish, about long, with wings about wide and attached to the base of the lower sepal. The fruit is a more or less spherical capsule containing spherical to elliptic seeds about in diameter.

Taxonomy and naming

This species was first formally described in 1810 by

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who gave it the name ''Velleia pubescens'' in his ''

Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen ''Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen'' (Prodromus of the Flora of New Holland and Van Diemen's Land) is a book by the botanist Robert Brown Robert Brown may refer to: Robert Brown (born 1965), British Director, Animator and ...

''. In 2020,

Kelly Anne Shepherd Kelly Anne Shepherd (born 1970) is an Australian botanist, who has published some 91 names. Career Shepherd earned a B.Sc. (Hon) in 1992 with a thesis entitled "Faecal Analysis of Mammalian Herbivores in the Perup Forest, Western Australia." ...

and others transferred it to the genus ''

Goodenia ''Goodenia'' is a genus of about two hundred species of flowering plants in the family Goodeniaceae. Plants in this genus are herbs or shrubs, mostly endemic to Australia. The leaves are variably-shaped, the flowers arranged in small groups, with ...

'' but the name ''G. pubescens'' was unavailable as it was preoccupied by a species described by Sieber ex Spreng., now known as '' Scaevola albida''. Shepherd named the new species ''G. subsolana''. The specific apithet (''subsolana'') means "eastern-oriental", referring to the distribution of this species near coastal habitats of Queensland, in eastern Australia.

Distribution

''Goodenia subsolana'' is found near

Shoalwater Bay Shoalwater Bay is a large bay on the Capricorn Coast of Central Queensland, Australia 100 km north of the coastal town of Yeppoon and 628 km north-north-west of the state capital, Brisbane. Since 1966, the land surrounding Shoalwater B ...

and around

Herberton Herberton is a rural town and locality in the Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Herberton had a population of 895 people. Geography Herberton is on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland. It is situate ...

in eastern Queensland.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q106905783 subsolana Flora of Queensland Plants described in 2020 Taxa named by Kelly Anne Shepherd