Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Chloanthes glandulosa

Flowering stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer M Parkes, unknown place

Common name

None

Family

Lamiaceae

Where found

Wet forest. Blue Mountains and western Sydney. Rarely elsewhere.

Notes

Shrub to 0.9 m high, hairy. Leaves opposite each other or in whorls of 3, 3.5–8 cm long, 4–11 mm wide, both surfaces rough, upper surface wrinkled, lower surface finely bristly and with primary and secondary veins prominent, margins scarcely curved down, bases continuing down the stems. Flowers greenish yellow, 35–50 mm long, tubular, 2-lipped, 5-lobed, the lower lobe of the lower lip densely hairy inside. Stamens and style hidden in the flower tube. Flowers single at the bases of the leaves. Flowers mainly spring-summer.

Family was Chloanthaceae.

Description above partly based on Jessop, J.P. (19 December 1977), A taxonomic revision of the genus Chloanthes (Chloanthaceae). Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 1(2): 100-102, Fig. 4, Map 4

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Chloanthes~glandulosa (accessed 7 January, 2021)