Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Dampiera fusca
Common name
Kydra dampiera
Family
Goodeniaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, heath, shrubland, and rocky areas, after fire. Ranges and tablelands south of Goulburn. ACT in Namadgi National Park after the hot fires of 2003. This population had died out by 2013.
Notes
Shrub to 0.3 m high. Stems with 3 pointed angles, slightly ribbed, warty, brownish grey-hairy with branched hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see) to almost hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, usually clustered congested in pseudowhorls towards the tops of the stems, 0.8–2.2 cm long, 2–8 mm wide, hairy to hairless, warty, margins toothed. Flowers light blue to deep purplish-blue inside, with brownish grey hairs outside, about 8 mm long, tubular, the tube slit on the lower side, 2-lipped, with 5 lobes. Flowering branches single or 2 together, l-3-flowered. Flowers Spring to Summer. Seed cases 2–3 mm long, hairy with brownish appressed hairs or almost hairless.
Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
Endangered Vic.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=20057 (accessed 4 January, 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dampiera~fusca (accessed 4 January, 2021)
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