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Goodenia pulchella

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Family Goodeniaceae

Taxonomy: Goodenia pulchella Benth.

Synonyms: 16 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Aillya umbellata (de Vriese) de Vriese (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aillya umbellata (de Vriese) de Vriese var. umbellata (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aillya umbellata var. denticulata (de Vriese) de Vriese (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aillya umbellata var. procumbens (de Vriese) de Vriese (taxonomic synonym)
  • Aillya umbellata var. spathulata (de Vriese) de Vriese (taxonomic synonym)
  • Goodenia aillya F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Goodenia filiformis var. glaucoides E.Pritz. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Goodenia filiformis var. hirsuta K.Krause (taxonomic synonym)
  • Goodenia filiformis var. pulchella (Benth.) Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Lobelia longiscapa de Vriese (taxonomic synonym)
  • Scaevola umbellata de Vriese (taxonomic synonym)
  • Scaevola umbellata de Vriese var. umbellata (taxonomic synonym)
  • Scaevola umbellata var. denticulata de Vriese (taxonomic synonym)
  • Scaevola umbellata var. procumbens de Vriese (taxonomic synonym)
  • Scaevola umbellata var. spathulata de Vriese (taxonomic synonym)
  • Velleia lanceolata Lindl. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Goodenia elongata Labill. (doubtful misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (23), Chen_2017 (5), RBGK_2014 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (1), Standish_2019 (7), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 31 traits from 61 records in 13 datasets.

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

fire response
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 67.5 mm (20-130 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 7 mm (1-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_crenate (1); toothed_dentate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (3); perennial (3) [sources: Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (2); erect (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnyyyy (2); yyyynnnyyyyy (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.5 mg (0.49-0.52 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014; Standish_2019]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.25 mm (1-1.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.25 mm (1-1.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): orbicular (1); winged (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.33 m (0.05-0.45 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231523Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wheeler_2002810J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
Standish_201977R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
Chen_201755Chen, 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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_198111B. 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/.
RBGK_201411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Sjostrom_200611A. 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.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.