Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Chloanthes stoechadis

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

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Booderee National Park, Jervis Bay

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

Common name

None

Family

Lamiaceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, and disturbed sites. Ranges and tablelands north from Wadbilliga National Park. Coastal north from Jervis Bay.

Notes

Shrub to 0.9 m high, hairy. Leaves opposite each other or in whorls of 3, 0.5–5 cm long, 1–5 mm wide, upper surface wrinkled, lower surface white woolly, margins rolled down, bases continuing down the stems. Flowers greenish yellow or greenish blue to mauve, 20–45 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 throughout the year but chiefly winter.

Family was Chloanthaceae.

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