Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Prostanthera incisa

Common name

Cut-leaved mint-bush, Cut-leaf mint-bush

Family

Lamiaceae

Where found

Forest and shrubland. Coast and ranges.

Notes

Shrub to 3 m high. Branches longitudinally ridged to 4-angled, moderately to densely covered with short curled hairs and glands on very short stalks, becoming hairless. The whole plant strongly and unpleasantly aromatic. Leaves opposite each other, 0.8–5 cm long, 4–12 mm wide, green, lower surface paler, covered with short, curled hairs at the leaf base, densely covered with more or less stalkless glands, margins coarsely toothed, tips blunt; base more or less continuing down the stems. Flowers pale mauve to purple, with a bell-shaped tube, 7–10 mm long, 2-lipped, 5-lobed. Calyx 2-lobed. Flowers in leafy to leafless clusters. Flowering: spring.

Rare Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Prostanthera~incisa (accessed 3 February, 2021)