Goodenia ovata
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{{Speciesbox
|name = Hop goodenia
|image = Goodenia ovata image 02.jpg
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|genus = Goodenia
|species = ovata
|authority = Sm.{{cite web|title=Goodenia ovata|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/75156|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=24 March 2021}}
|synonyms =
- Goodenia acuminata R.Br.
- Goodenia ovata f. latifolia (Schltdl.) A.D.Chapm.
- Goodenia ovata Sm. f. ovata
- Goodenia ovata var. cordata F.Muell.
- Goodenia ovata var. lanceolata F.Muell.
- Goodenia ovata var. latifolia Schltdl.
- Goodenia ovata Sm. var. ovata
- Goodenoughia ovata (Sm.) Siebert & Voss
}}
Goodenia ovata, commonly called hop goodenia,{{cite web|url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Goodenia~ovata |title=Goodenia ovata |accessdate=7 March 2017 |work= PlantNET - New South Wales Flora Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney Australia | author=Carolin, Roger C.}} is a species of flowering plant and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a shrub with sticky, often varnished foliage, toothed egg-shaped to elliptic leaves and racemes or thyrses of yellow flowers.
Description
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Goodenia ovata is an erect, ascending to prostrate shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|2|m}} and has sticky, often varnished foliage. The leaves are egg-shaped to elliptic, {{cvt|30–80|mm}} long and {{cvt|10–40|mm}} wide with toothed edges, on a petiole up to {{cvt|30|mm}} long.
The flowers are arranged in racemes or thyrses about {{cvt|350|mm}} long on a peduncle {{cvt|10–40|mm}} long, with leaf-like bracts and linear bracteoles {{cvt|2–6|mm}} long. Each flower is borne on a pedicel up to {{cvt|8|mm}} long, the sepals linear to lance-shaped and {{cvt|3–11|mm}} long. The petals are yellow, {{cvt|10–19|mm}} long, the lower lobes {{cvt|5–7|mm}} long with wings up to {{cvt|2.5|mm}} wide. Flowering occurs throughout the year with a peak from October to March and the fruit is a cylindrical capsule {{cvt|8–12|mm}} long.{{cite web |last1=Carolin |first1=Roger C. |title=Goodenia ovata |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Goodenia%20ovata |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra |access-date=24 March 2021}}{{cite web |last1=Jeanes |first1=Jeff A. |title=Goodenia ovata |url=https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/7c262d05-5380-49b4-8470-2510a01b5ac9 |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria |access-date=24 March 2021}}{{cite web |title=Goodenia ovata |url=http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/cgi-bin/speciesfacts_display.cgi?form=speciesfacts&name=Goodenia_ovata |publisher=State Herbarium of South Australia |access-date=24 March 2021}}{{cite web | url=http://anpsa.org.au/g-ova.html | title= Goodenia ovata | author=Walters, Brian | publisher= Australian Native Plants Society | access-date= 7 March 2017 | date= February 2010}}
Taxonomy
Goodenia ovata was first formally described in 1794 by James Edward Smith in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London from specimens "presented to the Society by Mr. Hoy" in December 1792.{{cite web|title=Goodenia ovata|url= http://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/488067|publisher=APNI|access-date=24 March 2021}}{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=James E. |title=An account of two new genera of plants from New South Wales |journal=Transactions of the Linnean Society of London |date=1794 |volume=2 |pages=347–348 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/760193#page/383/mode/1up |access-date=24 March 2021}} The species' name ovata refers to the egg-shaped or oval leaves.
Distribution and habitat
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Hop goodenia grows in forest, woodland and scrub in higher rainfall areas, and especially in disturbed areas. It is found near the coast as well as in drier inland areas. It occurs in south-eastern South Australia, most of Victoria apart from the northern mallee and alpine areas and most of New South Wales. It is also widespread in Tasmania and south-eastern Queensland.{{cite web |last1=Jordan |first1=Greg |title=Goodenia ovata |url=https://www.utas.edu.au/dicotkey/dicotkey/Gooden/sGoodenia_ovata.htm |publisher=University of Tasmania |access-date=24 March 2021}}
It grows on medium-nutrient clay soils derived from shale, as well as siltstone and sandstone, in areas of good drainage in a partly-shaded location in moist eucalypt forests alongside Themeda australis and under such trees as turpentine (Syncarpia glomulifera) or blackbutt (Eucalyptus pilularis), or in open forest under swamp oak (Casuarina glauca), forest red gum (Eucalyptus tereticornis), thin-leaved stringybark (E. eugenioides), or woollybutt (E. longifolia).{{cite journal |last=Benson |first=Doug |author2=McDougall, Lyn |year=1997 |title=Ecology of Sydney plant species:Part 5: Dicotyledon families Flacourtiaceae to Myrsinaceae |journal=Cunninghamia |volume=5 |issue=2 |page=375 |url=https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/getmedia/09272b7d-fff1-44e0-a2aa-f18580293c14/Volume-5(2)-1997-Cun5Ben330-544.pdf.aspx |access-date=24 March 2021 }}
Ecology
Use in horticulture
In cultivation, the species prefers a situation in part shade and with some moisture. It copes with a range of soil types and tolerates moderate frost.{{cite book|author=Greig, D.| title=The Australian Gardener's Wildflower Catalogue| publisher=Angus & Robertson|location= Australia | year=1987 | isbn=0207154600}} Fast-growing, it can be used as a "filler" plant in the garden. It is readily propagated by cuttings.
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Category:Flora of New South Wales
Category:Flora of South Australia
Category:Flora of Victoria (state)
Category:Asterales of Australia