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Dampiera tenuicaulis E.Pritz. var. tenuicaulis

Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Wiry shrub, 0.1-0.4 m high, corolla hairs dark grey to black. Fl. blue, Jul to Nov. Sandy, sometimes gravelly soils. Plains.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 8 February 2000

Scientific Description

Stems ribbed. Leaves flat, 5-7 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, Indumentum absent (leaves glabrous); margins entire. Bracteoles present, hairy, with simple hairs. Pedicel pedicellate, Pedicel length the pedicels 2-5 mm long, Indumentum present, Hair type with simple hairs. Calyx lobes absent. Corolla blue, 8-12 mm long, auriculate, not spurred, hairy on the outside, with dense, simple hairs, glabrous on the inside; central lobes 3-5.5 mm long, with wings; outer lobes 4.3-7 mm long, wing present on both sides and clearly unequal, 0.8-1.2 mm wide on the narrower side, 1-2.7 mm wide on the broader side. Anthers connate. Ovary inferior, not gibbose; style 2.5-3.5 mm long, glabrous; indusium single, glabrous; ovules one or two. Flowers in July, August, September, October and November. Occurs in the Murchison (MUR), Coolgardie (COO), Geraldton Sandplains (GS) and Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA Region(s), of the Eremaean (E) and South West (SW) Botanical Province.

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 2 August 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Murchison.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Murchison, Merredin, Southern Cross.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Coolgardie, Dundas, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Koorda, Mount Marshall, Perenjori, Yilgarn.