Английская Википедия:Goodenia pusilla

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Goodenia pusilla is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an ascending herb with lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves at the base of the plant and single yellow flowers with brownish markings.

Description

Goodenia pusilla is an ascending herb that typically grows to a height of up to Шаблон:Cvt, sometimes forming stolons along the stems. The leaves at the base of the plant are lance-shaped to broadly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide on a short petiole. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on a pedicel about Шаблон:Cvt long. The sepals are lance-shaped, about Шаблон:Cvt long, the corolla yellow with brownish markings and Шаблон:Cvt long. The lower lobes of the corolla are about Шаблон:Cvt long with wings up to Шаблон:Cvt wide. Flowering mainly occurs from October to December and the fruit is an elliptical to oval capsule Шаблон:Cvt long.[1][2]

Taxonomy and naming

This species was first formally described in 1845 by Willem Hendrik de Vriese in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae and was given the name Scaevola pusilla.[3][4] In 1854, de Vriese changed the name to Goodenia pusilla.[5][6] The specific epithet (pusilla) means "very small".[7]

Distribution and habitat

This goodenia grows in moist places in forest, woodland and swamp between Gingin and Albany in the south-west of Western Australia.[1][2]

Conservation status

Goodenia pusilla is classified as "not threatened" by the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.[2]

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