{{short description|Species of plant}} {{Speciesbox | image = Diplolaena dampieri Cape Naturaliste.jpg | image_caption = Near the Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse | taxon = Diplolaena dampieri | authority = Desf.<ref name="APC">{{cite web |title=''Diplolaena dampieri'' |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/78286 |publisher=Australian Plant Census}}</ref> }} thumb|Habit
'''''Diplolaena dampieri''''', commonly known as '''Dampier's rose''',<ref name="COASTCARE">{{cite web |title=''Diplolaena dampieri'' |url=https://cambridgecoastcare.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/D63-Diplolaena-dampieri-DAMPIERS-ROSE.pdf |website=Plants of the West Coast |publisher=Cambridge Coast Care |accessdate=27 August 2020}}</ref> is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae. It is endemic 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 {{cvt|1.5|m}}. It has strongly aromatic, elliptic to oblong-elliptic shaped, leathery leaves to {{cvt|40|mm}} 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 {{cvt|10-15|mm}} in diameter, outer bracts narrowly triangular to oval shaped, {{cvt|7-10|mm}} long with thick, grey to reddish star-shaped hairs. The inner bracts narrowly oblong, about {{cvt|12|mm}} long and densely covered with short, matted, star shaped hairs. The orange to pale red petals about {{cvt|5|mm}} long and thickly covered with small hairs on the edges. Flowering occurs from July to September.<ref name="FOA">{{cite web |last1=Wilson |first1=Paul G. |title=''Diplolaena dampieri'' |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Diplolaena%20dampieri |website=Flora of Australian-on line |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra |accessdate=27 August 2020}}</ref><ref name="NUYTSIA">{{cite journal |last1=Wilson |first1=Paul G. |title=''Diplolaena dampieri'' |journal=Nuytsia |date=1998 |volume=12 |issue=1 |page=112 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/224909#page/118/mode/1up |accessdate=28 August 2020}}</ref>
==Taxonomy== ''Diplolaena dampieri'' was first formally described in 1817 by René Louiche Desfontaines and the description was published in ''Memoires du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle''.<ref name="APNI1">{{cite web |title=''Diplolaena dampieri'' |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/492865 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |accessdate=28 August 2020}}</ref><ref name="BHL">{{cite journal |last1=Desfontaines |first1=René Louiche |title= ''Diplolaena dampieri'' | journal= Mémoires du Muséum d'histoire naturelle |date=1817 |volume=3 |page=452 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108211#page/502/mode/1up |accessdate=28 August 2020}}</ref>
==Distribution and habitat== Dampier's rose grows in the south west from Cape Leeuwin, north to Fremantle in low heath, loamy soils, limestone and sand dunes.<ref name="FOA"/>
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Category:Sapindales of Australia Category:Rosids of Western Australia Category:Taxa named by René Louiche Desfontaines Category:Zanthoxyloideae