Goodenia rotundifolia: Fan Flower

Goodenia rotundifolia
otherwise known as Fan Flower

A flowering plant common in Australia that has a prostrate to erect a perennial herb with more or less round toothed leaves and racemes of yellow flowers, growing to a typical height of 50 cm. Leaves stay mostly at the base of the plant, producing more or less round or egg-shaped leaves 8-20 mm long and 5-20 mm wide with toothed or often wavy-edged leaves. These produce flowers arranged in racemes upwards to 300 mm long on a peduncle 8-23 mm long with leaf-like bracts and each flower on a pedicel upwards of 2 mm long with linear bracteoles about 5 mm in length. Sepals are linear to lance-shaped 5-7.5 mm in length and yellow petals 12-16 mm long. the corolla lower lobes are 5-6 mm in length with .8-1.5 mm wings width – flowering from September to May. It produces a spherical capsule fruit approximately 5-7 mm in diameter.

tags: Goodenia rotundifolia, Fan Flower, flowers, Australia

References:

• Queensland Government n.d. “Species profile – Goodenia rotundifolia”. Website referenced 6/21/22 at https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species-search/details/?id=17065
• Wikipedia n.d. “Goodenia rotundifolia”. Website referenced 6/22/21 at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodenia_rotundifolia