Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Prostanthera cuneata
Common name
Alpine mint bush
Family
Lamiaceae
Where found
Woodland, heath, shrubland, and rocky sites. Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, and ACT.
Notes
Shrub to 1.5 m high. Branchlets densely hairy, sticky. The whole plant strongly aromatic. Leaves crowded, opposite each other, 0.4–0.8 cm long, 3–5 mm wide, upper surface dark green, lower surface paler, hairless, densely glandular, margins entire or with minute scallops, tips rounded to blunt, or appearing squared off when the margins are curved down. Flowers white to mauve, with many violet, purple or reddish blotches or spots in the throat and tube, and yellow blotches near the throat of the lower lobe, 10–15 mm long, about 20 mm in diameter, with a bell-shaped tube, 2-lipped, the upper lip notched to 2-lobed, the lower lip 3-lobed with the middle lobe notched. Calyx 2-lobed. Flowers single at the base of paired leaves, crowded at the top of the stems, forming leafy clusters. Flowering: November–April
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Prostanthera~cuneata (accessed 2 February, 2021)
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