pronounced: good-en-ee-AY-see-eye
Goodenia was named for Bishop Samuel Goodenough, 19th century British natural scientist. The Goodeniaceae family is distributed mostly in Australia, except for the genus Scaevola, which is pan-tropical. Species in the family are generally herbaceous with spirally arranged leaves. Flowers have a single plane of symmetry. The corolla lobes often look trilobed due to two marginal wings, and are often divided down the middle. The ovary is inferior to superior, 2-locular but usually incompletely so, or apparently 1-locular; there are one to several ovules per locule. The style is surmounted by a pollen cup or indusium which collects and exposes the pollen; the stigma grows from the centre of the indusium.
