Goodenia pilosa

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Family Goodeniaceae

Taxonomy: Goodenia pilosa (R.Br.) Carolin

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)

Balingayum decumbens Blanco (taxonomic synonym)
Calogyne chinensis Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Calogyne heteroptera F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Calogyne pilosa R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
Goodenia dubia Spreng. (taxonomic synonym)
Goodenia heteroptera (F.Muell.) B.D.Jacks. (taxonomic synonym)
Goodenia heteroptera (F.Muell.) Carolin (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (29), Brock_1993 (10), Chen_2017 (9), Lord_1997 (3), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (11), Rice_1991 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (1), Wenk_2022 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 26 traits from 75 records in 11 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_width (numerical): 2.75 mm (2-3.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 2.75 mm (2-3.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: Chen_2017]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 48.38 mm (10-120 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 7.67 mm (3-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); lanceolate (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_oblong (1); oblanceolate (1); obovate (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (2); auriculate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_dentate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Lord_1997; NTH_2022; Rice_1991; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (1); prostrate (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyynnnn (2); yyyyyyyyynnn (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993; Chen_2017]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.2 mg (2.2-2.2 mg) [sources: Lord_1997]
seed_length (numerical): 3.25 mm (2.5-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (2); ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.22 m (0.05-0.3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	14	29	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2023	9	11	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Brock_1993	8	10	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Chen_2017	5	9	Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
ABRS_2022	3	5	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Lord_1997	3	3	J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
NTH_2022	3	3	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_1981	1	1	B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
Rice_1991	1	1	B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
Sjostrom_2006	1	1	A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.