Browse by Family: Goodeniaceae


Plant Group: Dicotyledon

Family Description:
Herbs and shrubs, petals unevenly spaced (two above, three below, or all on one side like a fan). Stigma covered by a hood (indusium).

Genera Species Images
Brunonia
australis
Image: David Meagher
Dampiera
Bushy shrublets, flowers blue, buds conspicuously hairy.
stricta
Image: Mary Ellis
Goodenia
Winged petals, two above, three below, spreading from a tube enclosing the style with hooded stigma rising above a cylinder of erect stamens.
ovata
Image: Mary Ellis
Scaevola
Fan-flowers are bushes to mat-plants, flowers arise from leaf bases, usually blue and hemispherical, with petal bases that are white or yellow.
albida
Image: Freya Thomas
Selliera
radicans
Image: Mary Ellis

Classification:

Genus Species
Brunonia Brunonia australis
Dampiera Dampiera stricta
Goodenia Goodenia ovata
Scaevola Scaevola albida
Selliera Selliera radicans