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Dampiera salahae Rajput & Carolin

Reference
Telopea 3:198-199 (1988)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Ascending, woody perennial, herb or shrub, 0.15-0.5 m high. Fl. purple-blue, Jun to Nov. Sand, sandy clay, gravel. Sandplains.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 7 March 1996

Scientific Description

Stems unribbed. Leaves flat, 10-35 mm long, 3-20 mm wide, Indumentum present, with dense, simple hairs; margins entire. Bracteoles present, 3-4 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs. Pedicel pedicellate, Pedicel length the pedicels 2.5-7 mm long, Indumentum present, Hair type with absent hairs. Calyx lobes absent. Corolla blue, 8-10 mm long, auriculate, not spurred, hairy on the outside, with dense, dendritic hairs, glabrous on the inside; central lobes 4-6 mm long, with wings; outer lobes 5.5-8.5 mm long, wing present on both sides and clearly unequal, 0.7-1.3 mm wide on the narrower side, 1-2.2 mm wide on the broader side. Anthers connate. Ovary inferior, not gibbose; style 2.8-3 mm long, glabrous; indusium single, glabrous; ovules one or two. Flowers in June, July, August, September, October and November. Occurs in the Yalgoo (YAL) and Geraldton Sandplains (GS) 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, Geraldton Sandplains, Yalgoo.
IBRA Subregions
Geraldton Hills, Merredin, Tallering.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Chapman Valley, Dalwallinu, Greater Geraldton, Morawa, Perenjori, Three Springs, Wongan-Ballidu.