Goodenia hederacea
Sm. Ivy GoodeniaProstrate or ascending perennial to 30 cm high; stems to 80 cm long, often cottony hairy. Leaves linear to orbicular or elliptic, 1–12 cm long, 3–25 mm wide, acute or obtuse, upper surface pubescent to glabrous, margins entire, toothed or lobed; petiole to 4 cm long. Inflorescences terminal leafy racemes to 80 cm long or flowers solitary in axils; pedicels non-articulate, 5–20 mm long; bracteoles linear, 3–5 mm long. Sepals linear to lanceolate, 3–5 mm long; corolla 8–15 mm long, cottony outside, pubescent inside, yellow, abaxial lobes 3.5–7 mm long, wings to 2 mm wide; indusium depressed-obovate; ovules 8–20. Fruit ovoid, 5–9 mm long, valves bifid, spreading; seeds c. elliptic, 2–3 mm long, papillose to bristly, yellow or yellow-brown, wing vestigial.
VVP, VRiv, OtP, Gold, CVU, NIS, EGU, HSF, HNF, OtR, MonT, VAlp.
2 subspecies, both in Victoria.
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Goodeniaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 589–615. Inkata Press, Melbourne.