Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Prostanthera askania

Common name

Tranquility Mintbush, Askania Mintbush

Family

Lamiaceae

Where found

Rainforest and wet forest near drainage lines. Coast and eastern edge of the ranges north of Broken Bay.

Notes

Shrub to 3 m high, sometimes scrambling. Branches densely covered with long, whitish hairs, moderately covered with stalkless glands. The whole plant strongly aromatic. Leaves opposite each other, 1.2–4 cm long, 8–24 mm wide, surfaces dusty green, hairy with long more or less spreading hairs, moderately covered with almost stalkless glands, margins flat, deeply toothed with the rounded teeth directed forward, tips blunt. Flowers pale mauve to mauve or bluish, about 8 to 14 mm long, with a bell-shaped tube, 2-lipped, 5-lobed. Calyx 2-lobed. Flowers in 4-10 flowered leafless clusters. Flowering: spring.

Endangered Australia. Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

NSW Threatened Species profile with photos:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10671 (accessed 7 January 2021)

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