Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Prostanthera rugosa

Common name

A mint bush

Family

Lamiaceae

Where found

Forest. Ranges and tablelands between Lake Burragorang and east of Goulburn. Rarely elsewhere.

Notes

Shrub to 1.5 m high. Branches densely covered with long spreading hairs, at least on young growth, and more or less stalkless glands. The whole plant aromatic. Leaves opposite each other, often crowded together; 0.3–0.9 mm long, 2–5 mm wide, thick and fleshy, upper surface sparsely to moderately covered with short, more or less spreading hairs, lower surface hairless or moderately covered with long spreading hairs, especially on the midvein, and densely glandular, margins more or less curved down, and with 2 or 3 blunt lobes on either side, tips more or less blunt. Flowers mauve with a white tinge, 10–13 mm long, with a bell-shaped tube, 2-lipped, 5-lobed. Calyx 2-lobed. Flowers single at the base of paired leaves, forming leafy clusters. Flowering: September–October

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