Coopernookia strophiolata

Coopernookia strophiolata is a shrub in the Goodeniaceae family,[2] endemic to Australia and found in both Western Australia and South Australia.[1]

Coopernookia strophiolata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Goodeniaceae
Genus: Coopernookia
Species:
C. strophiolata
Binomial name
Coopernookia strophiolata
Synonyms[1]

Goodenia strophiolata F.Muell.

Description

Coopernookia strophiolata is a sticky, spreading (sometimes straggly) shrub growing from heights of 30 cm to 1.2 m.[2] The leaves are obovate, spoon-shaped or elliptic, narrowing gradually towards the base, and have toothed margins and a few star-shaped hairs. The leaf blades are 10 to 35 mm long by 2 to 15 mm wide. The stalks of the inflorescence are up to 12 mm long. The sepals are 3 to 7 mm long, and joined to the ovary towards the base. The white dark-veined corolla is up to 12 mm long and has stellate hairs on the outside. The lobes are unequal and the adaxial lobes have bristles near their posterior margins. The capsule is globular and 5 to 7 mm in diameter. The seeds (3 mm long) are ellipsoidal.[3]

Taxonomy and naming

The species was first described as Goodenia strophiolata by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1859 in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae.[4][5] It was transferred to the newly described genus, Coopernookia by Roger Carolin in 1968.[4][6]

Distribution and habitat

Coopernookia strophiolata occurs on sands, clays and stony soils.[2] In Western Australia it is found in Beard's Eremaean and South-West Provinces,[2] and in South Australia, near Maralinga and on the Eyre Peninsula.[3]

References
  1. "Coopernookia strophiolata (F.Muell.) Carolin. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  2. "Coopernookia strophiolata". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  3. R.C.Carolin (2020). "Coopernookia strophiolata". Flora of Australia. Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  4. "Coopernookia strophiolata". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
  5. Mueller, F.J.H. von (1859). "Goodeniaceae". Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae. 1 (5): 119.
  6. Carolin, R.C. (1968). "Coopernookia: a new genus of Goodeniaceae". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 92 (3): 211. fig. 1E.
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