Dampiera adpressa
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| Purple beauty-bush | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Goodeniaceae |
| Genus: | Dampiera |
| Species: | D. adpressa |
| Binomial name | |
| Dampiera adpressa | |
Dampiera adpressa commonly known as purple beauty-bush,[2] 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.
Dampiera adpressa is an upright perennial understory shrub to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) 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, 1.1–5.5 cm (0.43–2.17 in) long, 2–23 mm (0.079–0.906 in) wide, margins smooth or toothed and sessile. Flowering branches are in groups of 3-5, 3–12 mm (0.12–0.47 in) long, corolla 8–10 mm (0.31–0.39 in) long and covered with greyish long, soft, straight hairs. Flowering occurs in spring and summer and the fruit is smooth, 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long, more or less ribbed and wrinkly.[2][3]