Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Plectranthus graveolens

Flowering stem. Photographer Jackie Miles

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Bomaderry Creek Regional Reserve near Nowra

Common name

None

Family

Lamiaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, and rocky places. Coast and ranges.

Notes

Shrub to about 1 m high or sprawling. Stems 4-angled, sparsely to densely hairy, sticky. Strongly and slightly unpleasantly aromatic. Leaves opposite each other, 1.5–10.5 cm long, 15–75 mm wide; tips pointed to blunt; margins scalloped to toothed with 10–19 pairs of teeth; both surfaces densely hairy and densely covered with orange-red stalkless glands. Flowers 7–13 mm long, usually violet-blue or purple, tubular, the tube strongly curved, 2-lipped,  the lower lip entire; the upper lip 3- or 4-lobed. Flowers in elongated clusters. Flowers all year.

Intergrades with Plectranthus parviflorus.

Rare Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Plectranthus~graveolens  (accessed 1 February, 2021)