''Diplolaena dampieri'', commonly known as Dampier's rose,is a species of flowering plant in the family

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. It is

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to the west coast of Western Australia. It has slightly leathery, oblong-elliptic shaped leaves, hairy bracts and pale red to orange flowers from July to September.

Description

''Diplolaena dampieri'' is a spreading, rounded shrub that typically grows to a height of . It has strongly aromatic, elliptic to oblong-elliptic shaped, leathery leaves to long, the upper surface dark olive green and hairless when mature, the lower surface thickly covered in cream to grey weak hairs. The pendulous flowers are borne at the end of branches, about in diameter, outer

bracts In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves. They may be smaller, larger, or of ...

narrowly triangular to oval shaped, long with thick, grey to reddish star-shaped hairs. The inner bracts narrowly oblong, about long and densely covered with short, matted, star shaped hairs. The orange to pale red petals about long and thickly covered with small hairs on the edges. Flowering occurs from July to September.

Taxonomy

''Diplolaena dampieri'' was first formally described in 1817 by

René Louiche Desfontaines René Louiche Desfontaines (14 February 1750 – 16 November 1833) was a French botanist. Desfontaines was born near Tremblay, Ille-et-Vilaine , Tremblay in Brittany. He attended the Collège de Rennes and in 1773 went to Paris to study medi ...

and the description was published in ''Memoires du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle''.

Distribution and habitat

Dampier's rose grows in the south west from

Cape Leeuwin Cape Leeuwin is the most south-westerly (but not most southerly) mainland point of the Australian continent, in the state of Western Australia. Description A few small islands and rocks, the St Alouarn Islands, extend further in Flinders Ba ...

, north to

Fremantle Fremantle () () is a port city in Western Australia, located at the mouth of the Swan River in the metropolitan area of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth. The Western Australian vernacular diminutive for ...

in low heath, loamy soils, limestone and sand dunes.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15391416 Sapindales of Australia Rosids of Western Australia Taxa named by René Louiche Desfontaines Zanthoxyloideae