About Goodenia stelligera R.Br.
Goodenia stelligera is an erect, hairless herb that typically reaches 60 centimeters (24 inches) in height, and forms adventitious roots. Its leaves grow in a rosette at the base of the plant, are linear to lance-shaped with the narrower end toward the base, sometimes have small teeth on the edges, and measure 50 to 250 millimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches) long, 1 to 12 millimeters (0.039 to 0.472 inches) wide, and are stalkless. Flowers are arranged in racemes or thyrses up to 600 millimeters (24 inches) long, with linear to lance-shaped bracts that are 10 to 25 millimeters (0.39 to 0.98 inches) long. Each individual flower is either stalkless or borne on a stalk up to 4 millimeters (0.16 inches) long. The sepals are linear and 4 to 5 millimeters (0.16 to 0.20 inches) long. The corolla is yellow, 13 to 15 millimeters (0.51 to 0.59 inches) long, and covered with whitish star-shaped hairs. The lower lobes of the corolla are 7 to 8 millimeters (0.28 to 0.31 inches) long, with wings 1.5 to 2.5 millimeters (0.059 to 0.098 inches) wide. Flowering occurs mainly from August to February. The fruit is an oval capsule 5 to 9 millimeters (0.20 to 0.35 inches) long, which opens to release elliptic brown seeds about 1.5 millimeters (0.059 inches) long. This species, commonly called spiked goodenia, grows in sandstone swamps in near-coastal areas, ranging from south-eastern Queensland to near Braidwood in New South Wales.
