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Table 1 
Water-associated habitat observations of Western Australian conservation-listed Goodenia (taken from label information for collections 
at the Western Australian Herbarium, Perth). Conservation status (CALM) as of December 2001; see Table 3 for priority codes. 
Species 
Status 
Comment 
Voucher 
Goodenia bymesii 
PI 
"In sand at edge of creek" 
H F Broadbent 624 
Goodenia crenata 
P3 
"Margins to billabong" 
D Dureau 118 
Goodenia durackiana 
PI 
"On black cracking clay soil" 
M Lazarides 6743 
Goodenia filiformis 
P3 
"Sandy swamp" 
E ] Croxford 1359 
Goodenia gloeophylla 
P2 
"Along small creekline" 
D E Symon 7125 
Goodenia inundata 
P2 
"Rocks in river.." 
G J Keighery 9089 
Goodenia kakadu 
P3 
"On damp mud at edge of swamp" 
I Cowie 4378 
Goodenia lyrata 
PI 
"...drainage tract in hardpan plain" 
A L Payne PRP 1349 
Goodenia neogoodenia 
P4 
"Damp flat at edge of claypan" 
S Patrick et al. 41 
Goodenia nuda 
P3 
"Bare river sand in dry scoured river bed" 
K McCreery ecol 96 
Goodenia omearana 
PI 
"Swamp on major river floodplain" 
A A Mitchell PRP 727 
Goodenia purpurascens 
P3 
"Bed of river" 
A S Mitchell 756 
Goodenia schiverinensis 
P3 
"...along creek line" 
A S George 8160 
Goodenia stenophylla 
P4 
"In creek bed" 
A S George 7191 
Goodenia strangfordii 
PI 
"On damp clay flat" 
J H Willis sn 
Goodenia virgata 
P2 
"...drainage line" 
A R Annels ARA 12 A 
Goodenia sp Scaddan (CD 
PI 
"...close to lake edge" 
CD Turley 41 VM/1099 
Turley 41 VM/1099) 
Table 2 
Disturbance observations for Western Australian conservation-listed Goodenia taxa (taken from label information from collections at the 
Western Australian Herbarium, Perth). Conservation status (CALM) as of December 2001; see Table 3 for priority codes. 
Species 
Status 
Comment 
Voucher 
Goodenia arthrotricha 
P2 
Goodenia brachypoda 
PI 
Goodenia gibbosa 
PI 
Goodenia laevis 
P3 
Goodenia modesta 
P3 
Goodenia perryi 
P3 
Goodenia qudrilocularis 
P2 
Goodenia schiverinensis 
P3 
Goodenia sericostachya 
P3 
Goodenia trichophylla 
P3 
Goodenia sp South Coast 
P3 
(AR Annels ARA1846) 
"In scrub burnt previous summer" 
"Burnt area" 
"Growing in recently burnt area" 
"Area ? recently slashed..." 
"Recent fire..." 
"...restricted to disturbed areas.." 
"...spread by roadside disturbance" 
"In burnt patch..." 
"...disturbed road verge" 
"Burnt 18 months previously" 
"Gravel pit" 
V Mann & A S George 202 
N F Norris 863 
B & B Backhouse W 206 
CD Turley 10/1295 
C P Campbell 378 
M Hislop 1848 
C D Turley 13/497 
D J Edinger et al. DJE2183A 
A S George 16407 
M Officer B 13 
E J Croxford 4304 
Australian Herbarium database of vascular plant names 
for Western Australia, December 2001), Green (1985) and 
Albrecht (2002). All data for maps were sourced from 
WAHERB (PERTH) database of specimen collections and 
mapped using ArcView 3.1 (ESRI). See Table 3 for an 
explanation of the CALM Priority listing codes. 
Results 
Biology and ecological preference 
As discussed above, most Goodenia species have 
habitat preferences for the margins of water gaining sites, 
depressions and watercourses (Table 1). This is true for 
the South-West and Northern Botanical Provinces, 
although most evident in the Eremaean Botanical 
Province where Goodenia species are either annuals or 
annually regenerate from a rootstock. Table 1 gives 
conservation-listed Goodenia species lodged with the 
Western Australian Herbarium collected from such 
habitats. "The presence and relative abundance of plants 
(G. halophila and G. cylindrocarpa, from central Australia) 
at a particular site each year appears to be highly 
dependant on the amount of rainfall" (Albrecht 2002). 
Many Goodenia taxa are highly responsive to fire (re¬ 
sprouters or fire/ disturbance opportunists). Table 2 lists 
Goodenia species lodged with the Western Australian 
Herbarium collected from recently disturbed habitats that 
indicate this functional trait. G. sericostachya, a poorly 
known species (CALM Priority Three), shows this 
response. Observed to be in abundance the year after a 
fire, population numbers rapidly fell in the following 
seasons to total absence after seven years (CALM filed 
information). Similar responses have also been observed 
for the related genera Scaevola and Lechenaultia (LWS, 
unpublished data; GJ Howell, NSW Agriculture, personal 
communication). Populations of Lechenaultia striata in the 
Little Sandy Desert were seen in the thousands the year 
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