Dampiera wellsiana F.Muell.

Perennial herb to c. 25 cm tall, glabrous or glabrescent except flowers; stock thick, tufted. Leaves basal, obovate to elliptic, entire; lamina 2-7 cm long, 9-40 mm wide; petiole to 6 cm long. Flowers numerous, in loose heads usually branched at base and elongating into spikes 13-30 cm long when fruiting; bracteoles to 5 mm long; pedicel almost obsolete. Sepals reduced to tufts of silky hairs on ovary. Corolla 7-9 mm long; hairs outside silky, type ii, white; wings c. 1.5 mm wide, smaller above auricle; calli 4-11 per row. Ovary 1.5-2 mm long. Fruit ellipsoidal, c. 2 mm long.

Grows in gravel, sandy loam and lateritic soil.