''Goodia pubescens'', commonly known as golden tip, is a species of flowering plant in the family

Fabaceae Fabaceae () or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomen ...

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 south-eastern Australia. It has

trifoliate The following terms are used to describe leaf morphology in the description and taxonomy of plants. Leaves may be simple (that is, the leaf blade or 'lamina' is undivided) or compound (that is, the leaf blade is divided into two or more leaflets ...

leaves and bright yellow pea flowers.

Description

''Goodia pubescens'' is a shrub or slender tree that typically grows to a height of high, its new branchlets thickly covered with flattened or spreading hairs. The leaves are trifoliate, the

petiole Petiole may refer to: *Petiole (botany), the stalk of a leaf, attaching the blade to the stem *Petiole (insect anatomy) In entomology, petiole is the technical term for the narrow waist of some hymenopteran insects, especially ants, bees, and ...

long, the leaflets elliptic, the end leaflet usually egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long, wide with scattered hairs on both surfaces. The flowers are borne in

raceme A raceme () or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate growth, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing flowers having short floral stalks along the shoots that bear the flowers. The oldest flowers grow close to the base and new flowers are ...

s long, bright yellow with red or brown markings, long, each flower a

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long. The

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is long and softly-hairy. Flowering occurs from September to November and the fruit is an oblong to narrowly-elliptic pod long narrowing to a thin stalk.

Taxonomy and naming

''Goodia pubescens'' was first formally described in 1810 by John Sims and the description was published in the ''

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''. The

specific epithet In Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin gramm ...

(''pubescens'') means "downy with soft, fine hairs". This species has sometimes been treated as a variety of '' G. lotifolia''.

Distribution and habitat

Golden tip grows in forest in the

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, Otways and Central Highlands of Victoria, and in Tasmania.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q50841279 Mirbelioids Fabales of Australia Flora of Tasmania Flora of Victoria (state) Taxa named by John Sims (taxonomist) Plants described in 1810