Dampiera
Dampiera is a genus of about 70 species of flowering plants in the family Goodeniaceae, all of which are endemic to Australia. Plants in the genus Dampiera are subshrubs or herbs with sessile leaves, flowers with five small sepals and blue, violet or pink, rarely white, two-lipped flowers.
Description
Plants in the genus Dampiera are multistemmed perennial subshrubs or herbs with a rosette of leaves, the leaves simple, sessile and sometimes with toothed edges. The flowers have five very small sepals and petals joined at the base with two "lips" with unequal lobes. The stamens form a tube around the style and are attached to the petal tube. The fruit is a nut often with parts of the flowers remaining attached, and contains a single seed.
Taxonomy
The genus Dampiera was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. The genus is named for William Dampier, an English sea captain who landed on the north-west coast of Western Australia in 1688 and 1699 and collected about twenty-five species of the first Australian plants to reach European herbaria.
Species list
The following is a list of Dampiera species accepted by the Australian Plant Census as at May 2021:Dampiera adpressa A.Cunn. ex DC. - purple beauty-bushDampiera alata Lindl. - winged-stem dampieraDampiera altissima Benth. - tall dampieraDampiera angulata Rajput & CarolinDampiera anonyma Lepschi & TrudgenDampiera atriplicina C.A.Gardner ex Rajput & CarolinDampiera candicans F.Muell.Dampiera carinata Benth. - summer dampieraDampiera cinerea Ewart & O.B.DaviesDampiera conospermoides W.Fitzg.Dampiera coronata Lindl. - wedge-leaved dampieraDampiera decurrens Rajput & CarolinDampiera deltoidea Rajput & CarolinDampiera dentata RajputDampiera discolor K.KrauseDampiera diversifolia de VrieseDampiera dysantha Rajput & CarolinDampiera eriantha K.KrauseDampiera eriocephala de Vriese - woolly-headed dampieraDampiera fasciculata R.Br. - bundled-leaf dampieraDampiera ferruginea R.Br.Dampiera fitzgeraldensis Rajput & CarolinDampiera fusca Rajput & Carolin - Kydra dampieraDampiera galbraithiana Rajput & CarolinDampiera glabrescens Benth.Dampiera haematotricha de VrieseDampiera hederacea R.Br. - Karri dampieraDampiera heteroptera Rajput & CarolinDampiera incana R.Br. - hoary dampieraDampiera juncea Benth. - rush-like dampieraDampiera krauseana Rajput & CarolinDampiera lanceolata A.Cunn. ex DC. - grooved dampieraDampiera latealata Rajput & CarolinDampiera lavandulacea Lindl.Dampiera leptoclada Benth. - slender-shooted dampieraDampiera lindleyi de VrieseDampiera linearis R.Br. - common dampieraDampiera loranthifolia F.Muell. ex Benth.Dampiera luteiflora F.Muell. - yellow dampieraDampiera marifolia Benth.Dampiera metallorum Lepschi & TrudgenDampiera obliqua Rajput & Carolin Dampiera oligophylla Benth. - sparse-leaved dampieraDampiera orchardii Rajput & CarolinDampiera parvifolia R.Br. - many-bracted dampieraDampiera pedunculata Rajput & CarolinDampiera plumosa S.MooreDampiera purpurea R.Br. - purple dampieraDampiera ramosa Rajput & CarolinDampiera rosmarinifolia Schltdl.Dampiera roycei RajputDampiera sacculata F.Muell. ex Benth. - pouched dampieraDampiera salahae Rajput & CarolinDampiera scaevolina C.A.Gardner ex Rajput & CarolinDampiera scottiana F.Muell.Dampiera sericantha F.Muell. ex Benth.Dampiera spicigera Benth. - spiked dampieraDampiera stenophylla K.KrauseDampiera stenostachya E.Pritz. - narrow-spiked dampieraDampiera stricta R.Br. - blue dampieraDampiera sylvestris Rajput & Carolin Dampiera tenuicaulis E.Pritz. - slender-stemmed dampieraDampiera tephrea Rajput & CarolinDampiera teres Lindl. - terete-leaved dampieraDampiera tomentosa K.Krause - felted dampieraDampiera trigona de Vriese - angled-stem dampieraDampiera triloba Lindl.Dampiera wellsiana F.Muell. - Wells' dampiera
Distribution
Species of Dampiera occur in all Australian States, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory.