Dampiera adpressa
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|genus = Dampiera
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|authority = (A.Cunn.) ex DC.{{cite web |title=Dampiera adpressa |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dampiera~adpressa |publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=6 February 2024}}
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Dampiera adpressa commonly known as purple beauty-bush,{{cite web |last1=Carolin |first1=R.C. |title=Dampiera adpressa |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dampiera~adpressa |website=PlantNET-NSW FLORA ONLINE |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney |access-date=6 February 2024}} 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 {{cvt|1|m}} 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, {{cvt|1.1-5.5|cm}} long, {{cvt|2-23|mm}} wide, margins smooth or toothed and sessile. Flowering branches are in groups of 3-5, {{cvt|3-12|mm}} long, corolla {{cvt|8-10|mm}} long and covered with greyish long, soft, straight hairs. Flowering occurs in spring and summer and the fruit is smooth, {{cvt|4-5|mm}} long, more or less ribbed and wrinkly.{{cite book |last1=Rajput |first1=M.T.M. |last2=Carolin |first2=R.C. |title=Flora of Australia Volume 35 |date=1992 |publisher=Australian Government Publishing Service |location=Canberra |isbn=0644145536 |page=60 |url=https://www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/default/files/env/pages/b0354ba6-bb62-4604-9fc1-78a64a005f95/files/flora-australia-35-brunoniaceae-goodeniaceae.pdf |access-date=14 February 2024}}
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Dampiera adpressa was first formally described in 1839 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle from an unpublished description by Allan Cunningham and the description was published in Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.{{cite web |title=Dampiera adpressa |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/492458 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |access-date=13 February 2024}} The specific epithet (adpressa) means "appressed".{{cite book |last1=George |first1=A.S |last2=Sharr |first2=F.A |title=Western Australian Plant Names and their meanings |date=2021 |publisher=Four Gables |location=Kardinya |isbn=9780958034197 |page=130|edition=4th}}
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.{{cite web |last1=Rajput |first1=M.T.M |last2=Carolin |first2=R.C. |title="Dampiera adpressa" |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Dampiera%20adpressa |website=Flora of Australia online |publisher=ABRS, ©Commonwealth of Australia |access-date=14 February 2024}}