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Dampiera metallorum Lepschi & Trudgen

Reference
Nuytsia 15:273-275, Fig. 1 (2004)
Conservation Code
Priority Three
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Rounded, multistemmed perennial, herb, to 0.5 m high. Fl. blue, Apr or Jun to Oct. Skeletal red-brown gravelly soil over banded ironstone. Steep slopes, summits of hills.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 13 February 2006
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Scientific Description

Stems unribbed. Leaves flat, 15-55 mm long, 4-10 mm wide, Indumentum absent (leaves glabrous) or present, with sparse, dendritic hairs; margins entire. Bracteoles absent. Pedicel pedicellate, Pedicel length the pedicels 2-8 mm long, Indumentum present, Hair type with dendritic hairs. Calyx lobes absent. Corolla blue, 9-14 mm long, auriculate, not spurred, hairy on the outside, with dense, dendritic hairs, glabrous on the inside; central lobes 4.5-5 mm long, with wings; outer lobes 5-7 mm long, wing present on both sides and clearly unequal, 1-1.3 mm wide on the narrower side, 1.5-1.6 mm wide on the broader side. Anthers connate. Ovary inferior, not gibbose; style 3.5-4 mm long, glabrous; indusium single, glabrous; ovules one or two. Flowers in April, May, June, July, August, September and October. Occurs in the Pilbara (PIL) IBRA Region(s), of the Eremaean (E) Botanical Province. Conservation Code: Conservation code Priority Two (P2).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 2 August 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Pilbara.
IBRA Subregions
Hamersley.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Ashburton, East Pilbara.