Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Westringia kydrensis
Common name
Kydra westringia
Family
Lamiaceae
Where found
Heath and rocky areas. Tablelands and western edge of the ranges south from east of Cooma.
Notes
Shrub to 0.4 m high. Stems hairy with appressed hairs. Leaves slightly aromatic when rubbed, in whorls of 3, 0.5–0.8 cm long, 2–3.5 mm wide, margins entire, and more or less flat although the leaves are often slightly curved down; both surfaces sparsely hairy, becoming hairless. Young leaves moderately hairy. Flowers 8–12 mm long, white with purplish to brownish dots, tubular, 2-lipped, with 5 lobes. Calyx tubular, with 5 lobes. Flowers single at the bases of the leaves, in elongated leafy clusters. Flowers August–November.
Endangered Australia. Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10836 (accessed 8 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Westringia~kydrensis (accessed 8 January 2021)
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