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{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2024}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{speciesbox
|name = Blue dampiera
|image = Dampiera stricta flower (16035535741).jpg
|image_caption =
|genus = Dampiera
|species = stricta
|authority = [[Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)|R.Br.]]<ref name="APC">{{cite web |title=''Dampiera stricta'' |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/78860 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=24 January 2022}}</ref>
| synonyms = {{Collapsible list|
''Dampiera oblongata'' R.Br. 
''Dampiera stricta'' (Sm.) R.Br. var. ''stricta'' 
''Dampiera stricta'' var. ''laxa'' Benth. 
''Dampiera stricta'' var. ''oblongata'' (R.Br.) Benth. 
''[[Goodenia]] stricta'' Sm.
}}
}}
[[File:Dampiera stricta habit.jpg|thumb|Habit in the [[Gibraltar Range National Park]]]]

'''''Dampiera stricta''''' commonly known as '''blue dampiera''',<ref name="NSW"/> is a flowering plant in the family [[Goodeniaceae]]. It is a small sub-shrub with variable leaves and mostly blue, mauve or purple flowers.

==Description==
''Dampiera stricta'' is an erect, slender, subshrub growing to about {{cvt|90|cm}} with ribbed, triangular, smooth or becoming smooth stems. The leaves are variable, mostly narrow-elliptic or lance-shaped, {{cvt|16-50|mm}} long, {{cvt|2-20|mm}} wide, margins smooth or toothed and [[sessile (botany)|sessile]]. The flowers are borne in leaf axils either singly or in pairs, up to {{cvt|3|cm}} long, [[pedicels]] {{cvt|1-2|mm}} long and the small linear [[bracts]] {{cvt|2.5-3|mm}} long. The [[corolla (botany)|corolla]] is {{cvt|10-12|mm}} long, blue to purple with a whitish centre, rusty coloured hairs on the outside, wings {{cvt|2-2.7|mm}} wide, upper petals smaller and the [[sepals]] {{cvt|0.7-1.2|mm}} long. Flowering occurs mainly from August to January and the fruit is a rounded oblong shape, {{cvt|4-5|mm}} long, ribbed and covered in rusty coloured hairs.<ref name=NSW>{{cite web |url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dampiera~stricta|title=''Dampiera stricta'' |accessdate=2009-03-11 |author=|work= PlantNET - New South Wales Flora Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney Australia}}</ref><ref name="VICFLORA">{{cite web |title=''Dampiera stricta'' |url=https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/deb026e0-ebe3-4354-a0d0-ff4f918fc4a4 |website=VICFLORA-Flora of Victoria |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Victoria |access-date=25 January 2022}}</ref><ref name="FAIRLEY">{{cite book |last1=Fairley |first1=Alan |last2=Moore |first2=Philip |title=Native Plants of the Sydney Region |date=2010 |publisher=Jacana Books |location=Sydney |isbn=9781741755718 |page=434}}</ref>

==Taxonomy and naming==
''Dampiera stricta'' was first formally described in 1810 by [[Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)|Robert Brown]] and the description was published in ''[[Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen]]''.<ref name="APNI">{{cite web |title=''Dampiera stricta'' |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/493841 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |access-date=25 January 2022}}</ref><ref name="BROWN">{{cite book |last1=Brown |first1=Robert |title=Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen |date=1810 |volume=1 |location=London |page=589 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29583#page/457/mode/1up}}</ref> The [[Binomial nomenclature|specific epithet]] (''stricta'') means "straight" or "erect".<ref name="Sharr">{{cite book |last1=Sharr |first1=Francis Aubi |last2=George |first2=Alex |title=Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings |date=2019 |publisher=Four Gables Press |location=Kardinya, WA |isbn=9780958034180 |edition=3rd|page=315}}</ref>

==Distribution and habitat==
Blue dampiera is a common species usually growing in open forest and heath on sandy, gravel or loamy soils in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria on the [[Great Dividing Range]] and coastal locations.<ref name="ROGER">{{cite web |last1=Rajput |first1=M.T.M |last2=Carolin |first2=R.C |title=''Dampiera stricta'' |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Dampiera%20stricta |website=Flora of Australia |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. |access-date=25 January 2022}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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[[Category:Dampiera|stricta]]
[[Category:Flora of New South Wales]]
[[Category:Flora of Queensland]]
[[Category:Flora of Tasmania]]
[[Category:Flora of Victoria (state)]]
[[Category:Endemic flora of Australia]]

Dampiera stricta - Revision history

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