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A genus of shrubs and herbs that grow in Australia and New Guinea and Malaysia and southeast Asia
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goodenia
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Goodenia is a genus consisting of 179 species of flowering plants . The name was published in 1793 by James Edward Smith in honour of the Bishop of Carlisle Samuel Goodenough . Goodenough was also a botanist and member of the Linnean Society .
Usage examples of goodenia.
Xylomelum pyriforme or native pear trees with their wooden fruit and unpleasant odour, and the Goodenia ovata with its dark serrated leaves and yellow flowers and the Pittosporum and Sassafras were all clasped together and held close by native jasmine, and up through it all the cabbage and bangalow palms and the Eucalyptus microcorys or tallow wood and the Swamp Mahogany or robusta of the eucalyptus genus stood into the humid air.