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.

Velvet beauty-bush
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Goodeniaceae
Genus: Dampiera
Species:
D. ferruginea
Binomial name
Dampiera ferruginea

Description

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

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

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
  1. "Dampiera ferruginea". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  2. "Dampiera ferruginea". Species Information. Queensland Government. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  3. Rajput, M.T.M; Carolin, R.C (1992). Flora of Australia (PDF). Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia. p. 50. ISBN 0644145536.
  4. Bentham, George; von Mueller, Ferdinand (1868). Flora Australiensis (IV ed.). London: L.Reeve & Co. p. 112.
  5. "Dampiera ferruginea". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  6. Brown, Robert (1810). Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. London.
  7. George, A.S; Sharr, F.A (2021). Western Australian Plant Names and their meanings (4th ed.). Kardinya: Four Gables. p. 203. ISBN 9780958034197.
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