Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Chloanthes parviflora

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Wadbilliga National Park

Flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Carnarvon National Park south of Emerald, Qld

Common name

None

Family

Lamiaceae

Where found

Forest and heath. Mainly coast and ranges from Jervis Bay to Wadbilliga National Park. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Shrub to 0.9 m high, hairy. Leaves opposite each other or in whorls of 3, 1–4 cm long, 2–5 mm wide, pale green, upper surface wrinkled, lower surface white woolly and often concealed by the rolled down margins, bases continuing down the stems. Flowers mauve, often with purple spots, 15–30 mm long, tubular, 2-lipped, 5-lobed, the lower lobe of the lower lip hairless inside. Stamens and style projecting beyond the flower tube. Flowers single at the bases of the leaves. Flowers chiefly spring.

Family was Chloanthaceae.

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