Dampiera ferruginea
| Velvet beauty-bush | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Goodeniaceae |
| Genus: | Dampiera |
| Species: | D. ferruginea
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| Binomial name | |
| Dampiera ferruginea | |
Dampiera ferruginea commonly known as velvet beauty-bush,[2] is a flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a small, upright shrub with blue flowers.
Description
[edit]Dampiera ferruginea is an upright perennial to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) high and covered with dense, loose, matted brownish hairs. The leaves are sessile or with a short petiole, 11–46 mm (0.43–1.81 in) long, 6–25 mm (0.24–0.98 in) wide, oval to elliptic-shaped, margins entire or slightly scalloped and covered with short, matted, star-shaped hairs. The flowers are borne on a single branch in a cluster of 2-4 blue flowers, corolla 10–12 mm (0.39–0.47 in) long, outer surface densely covered with brownish hairs, bracteoles elliptic to oval-shaped, 7–10 mm (0.28–0.39 in) long and the pedicel 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) long. Flowering may occur throughout the year.[3][4]
Taxonomy and naming
[edit]Dampiera ferruginea was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown and the description was published in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.[5][6] The specific epithet (ferruginea) means "rust-coloured".[7]
Distribution and habitat
[edit]Velvet beauty-bush grows in swamps and sclerophyll forest south of Cape York Peninsula to central Queensland and coastal locations and the Great Dividing Range.
References
[edit]- ^ "Dampiera ferruginea". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
- ^ "Dampiera ferruginea". Species Information. Queensland Government. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
- ^ Rajput, M.T.M; Carolin, R.C (1992). Flora of Australia (PDF). Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia. p. 50. ISBN 0644145536.
- ^ Bentham, George; von Mueller, Ferdinand (1868). Flora Australiensis (IV ed.). London: L.Reeve & Co. p. 112.
- ^ "Dampiera ferruginea". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
- ^ Brown, Robert (1810). Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. London.
- ^ George, A.S; Sharr, F.A (2021). Western Australian Plant Names and their meanings (4th ed.). Kardinya: Four Gables. p. 203. ISBN 9780958034197.