Common name: golden tip, clover tree
Goodia lotifolia Salisb. APNI* Synonyms: Goodia lotifolia Salisb. var. lotifolia APNI*
Description: Shrub to 4 m high; stems glabrous or pubescent.
Leaves not crowded; leaflets obovate to obovate-cuneate, 10–30 mm long, glabrous or pubescent; petiole slender, 10–20 mm long.
Racemes to 8 cm long. Flowers 9–13 mm long; pedicels mostly ≤ 6 mm long. Calyx 4–6 mm long, teeth of lower lip triangular or narrower, at least equal in length to tube in mature flowers. Petals yellow with parts red to almost black. Ovary ± glabrous, ≤ 4-ovuled.
Pod obliquely ovate to oblong, mostly 23–28 mm long; aril with a divided base ≥ 1.5 mm long, encircling a linear hilum.
Flowering: spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows as a pioneer species in disturbed sites, often in sheltered valleys and on rainforest margins.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, ST, CWS
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. Tas.
A pubescent form occurs in northern coastal districts with densely pubescent stems and branches, and pods 30-40 mm long.
Text by T. A. James
Taxon concept:
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