Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Hemigenia cuneifolia

Flowers and leafy stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Peter Ollerenshaw, north of Hill Top

Flowering branches. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Peter Ollerenshaw, north of Hill Top

Common name

None 

Family

Lamiaceae 

Where found

Dry forest. Ranges north from Tallowa Dam. Sydney area.

Notes

Shrub to about 2.5 m high. Stems Leaves aromatic when rubbed, in whorls of 3, 1.5–3 cm long, 2–4 mm wide, tips pointed to mucronate; surfaces hairless. Flowers blue to mauve, about 8 mm long, tubular, 2-lipped, upper lip notched or 2-lobed, the lower lip 3-lobed. Flowers single at the base of whorled leaves. Flowering: mostly August–April.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hemigenia~cuneifolia  (accessed 19 January, 2021)