Dampiera salahae
Goodeniaceae
Melton Botanic Gardens,
Victoria, Australia
August 2025
#DampieraSalahae #Dampiera #Goodeniaceae ##ozplants #ozflora #Australiannature #botany #wildoz #nature #photography #photographyofbluesky #bluesky

Goodenia pilosa
Goodeniaceae
South of Cardwell,
North Queensland
May 2025
#GoodeniaPilosa #Goodeniaceae #ozplants #ozflora #AustralianFlora #Australiannature #wildoz #nature #photography #photographyofbluesky #bluesky

Goodenia armitiana (#3)
Goodeniaceae
West of Barkly Homestead,
Northern Territory, Australia

#GoodeniaArmitiana #Goodeniaceae #Goodenia #BarklyTablelands #NorthernTerritory #ozplants #ozflora #AustralianFlora #Australiannature #wildoz #nature #photography #photographyofbluesky #bluesky

Goodenia armitiana (#2)
Goodeniaceae
West of Barkly Homestead,
Northern Territory, Australia

#GoodeniaArmitiana #Goodeniaceae #Goodenia #BarklyTablelands #NorthernTerritory #ozplants #ozflora #AustralianFlora #Australiannature #wildoz #nature #photography #photographyofbluesky #bluesky

Goodenia armitiana (#1)
Goodeniaceae
West of Barkly Homestead,
Northern Territory, Australia

#GoodeniaArmitiana #Goodeniaceae #Goodenia #BarklyTablelands #NorthernTerritory #ozplants #ozflora #AustralianFlora #Australiannature #wildoz #nature #photography #photographyofbluesky #bluesky

Lechenaultia biloba
Goodeniaceae
Melton Botanic Gardens
Victoria Australia
Sept 2022

#LechenaultiaBiloba #Goodeniaceae #BlueLechenaultia #MeltonBotanicGardens #ozplants #ozflora #AustralianFlora #Australiannature #wildoz #nature #photography #photographyofbluesky #bluesky

Goodenia armitiana
Goodeniaceae
(Narrow-leafed Goodenia)
Barkly Tablelands
Northern Territory
October 2023
#GoodeniaArmitiana #Goodeniaceae #Narrow-leafedGoodenia #BarklyTablelands
#wildoz #ozflora #ozplants #Australiannature #AustralianFlora #botany #Bluesky
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Goodenia ramelii
Goodeniaceae
Gunpowder, Barkly Highway,
North-West Queensland,
August 2020
#Goodenia ramelii #Goodeniaceae #Purple-spikeGoodenia #wildoz #ozflora #ozplants #Australiannature #botany #nature #biodiversity

White four-lobed flowers

Cool! Here’s Scaevola chamissoniana, the Hawaiian endemic Mountain Naupaka (Naupaka Kuahiwi), blooming on Waihe'e Ridge. I assume we see the wide indusium here, thanks for that morphology explanation! #Goodeniaceae 🌿

Close-up photo of the head of flowers, which are blue. Each flower has an exserted, white, shovel-shaped gynoecium.

Goodeniaceae are famous for their gynoecium that is tipped with a pollen-collecting cup or ridge (indusium) as part of their pollen presentation. The white, spade-like indusium can be seen on this Brunonia australis (Kevin Thiele CC BY2) #Goodeniaceae #lesserknownAsterales #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪

Photo of the flowers, which are zygomorphic with five petal lobes, spread like an open hand.

Asteraceae are cosmopolitan, but their closest relatives are not so widespread. Let’s look at some of the lesser-known families in the #Asterales. Let’s start with #Goodeniaceae, a family that is mostly Australian, but Scaevola is pantropical. 📷: S. taccada #tropicalbotany #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪