Dampiera ferruginea
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| Velvet 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. ferruginea |
| Binomial name | |
| 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.
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]