Dampiera adpressa explained

Dampiera adpressa commonly known as purple beauty-bush,[1] is a flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a small, understory shrub with purple flowers and grows in Queensland and New South Wales.

Description

Dampiera adpressa is an upright perennial understory shrub to high with ribbed, needle-shaped leaves. The leaves are occasionally grouped in leaf axils, mostly oval-elliptic to lance-shaped or sometimes narrowly oblong-shaped, long, wide, margins smooth or toothed and sessile. Flowering branches are in groups of 3-5, long, corolla long and covered with greyish long, soft, straight hairs. Flowering occurs in spring and summer and the fruit is smooth, long, more or less ribbed and wrinkly.[1] [2]

Taxonomy and naming

Dampiera adpressa was first formally described in 1839 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle from an unpublished description by Allan Cunningham and the description was published in Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.[3] The specific epithet (adpressa) means "appressed".[4]

Distribution and habitat

Purple beauty-bush grows in forests and woodland from southern Queensland and New South Wales on the Great Dividing Range and western slopes and plains.[1] [5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Carolin . R.C. . Dampiera adpressa . PlantNET-NSW FLORA ONLINE . Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney . 6 February 2024.
  2. Book: Rajput . M.T.M. . Carolin . R.C. . Flora of Australia Volume 35 . 1992 . Australian Government Publishing Service . Canberra . 0644145536 . 60 . 14 February 2024.
  3. Web site: Dampiera adpressa . Australian Plant Name Index . 13 February 2024.
  4. Book: George . A.S . Sharr . F.A . Western Australian Plant Names and their meanings . 2021 . Four Gables . Kardinya . 9780958034197 . 130. 4th.
  5. Web site: Rajput . M.T.M . Carolin . R.C. . "Dampiera adpressa" . Flora of Australia online . ABRS, ©Commonwealth of Australia . 14 February 2024.