Dampiera candicans
# Dampiera candicans

Dampiera candicans is a plant in the family Goodeniaceae, native to Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

## Description

Dampiera candicans is an erect shrub growing to a height of 70 cm tall, with stems covered in brownish or greyish dense intertwined hairs. The upper surface of the leaves usually lose their covering but may have a few large coarse hairs. The lower leaf surface is always has a covering of dense intertwined hairs. The leaf lamina is 3-35 mm by 6-19 mm wide on a stalk (petiole) which is 3-10 mm long. The flowers occur in spikes which are 13-28 cm long. The sepals are about 0.1 mm long and hidden beneath hairs. The fruit is ellipsoidal to obovoid and about 2 mm long. It flowers from April to August, and is distinguished from Dampiera cinerea by its dentate leaf margins and its longer flower spikes.

## Distribution & habitat

It is found in north-western Western Australia and the west of the Northern Territory, growing on sandy and lateric soils.

## Taxonomy & etymology

It was first described by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1876. The specific epithet, candicans, is a Latin adjective, candicans, meaning "white", "whitish" or "having white woolly hairs".

