Dampiera dysantha

Erect or decumbent subshrub to 70 cm high; stems terete, deeply ribbed, sparsely white-tomentose with branched hairs, particularly in grooves, glabrescent with age. Leaves sessile, oblong-elliptic, 5–16 mm long, 2–6 mm wide, upper surface glabrous or glabrescent, papillate, lower surface tomentose, margins entire or toothed, usually revolute but not concealing lower surface. Inflorescence branches 5–7-flowered, 1–3 together in upper axils, with rusty and grey branched hairs; peduncles 11–17 mm long; pedicels 1–2 mm long; bracteoles linear-oblong, 3–4.5 mm long. Sepals 0.2–0.5 mm long, tomentose; corolla 9–11 mm long, blue or rarely lilac or white inside, rusty- and grey-tomentose outside, wings 1.7–2.2 mm wide. Fruit obovoid, 2–4 mm long, grey-tomentose. Flowers mainly Aug.–Nov.