Goodenia stobbsiana
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Goodenia stobbsiana is a shrub species native to the north of Western Australia
. It has blue flowers that appear between March and October in the species native range. The species was first formally described by botanist Ferdinand von Mueller
in 1881 in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae
, based on a collection by J. Forrest near the Yule River
.
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
. It has blue flowers that appear between March and October in the species native range. The species was first formally described by botanist Ferdinand von Mueller
Ferdinand von Mueller
Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, KCMG was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist.-Early life:...
in 1881 in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae
Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae
Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae is a series of papers authored by the Victorian Government botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in which he published many of his approximately 2000 descriptions of new taxa of Australian plants. The papers were issued in 94 parts between 1858 and 1882 and published in...
, based on a collection by J. Forrest near the Yule River
Yule River
The Yule River is an ephemeral river in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.The headwaters of the river rise in the Abydos Plain between the Chichester Range and the Mungaroona Range in the Scientific Reserve then flow in a north westerly direction crossing the North West Coastal Highway...
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