Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Prostanthera denticulata
Common name
Rough mint-bush
Family
Lamiaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and shrubland, usually in damp areas. Sydney area.
Notes
Shrub to 1 m high and to about 2 m diameter, straggling to almost prostrate. Branches moderately covered with short, more or less appressed, hairs. The whole plant aromatic. Leaves opposite each other, 0.4–1 cm long, 2–3 mm wide, mid-green, sparsely covered with short, more or less warty hairs (mostly near the margins), moderately glandular (especially on the ower surface), margins entire, curved down, tips blunt. Flowers purple to mauve, 7–10 mm long, with a bell-shaped tube, 2-lipped, 5-lobed. Calyx 2-lobed. Flowers in more or less leafy clusters. Flowering: spring to early summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Prostanthera~denticulata (accessed 3 February, 2021)
This identification key and fact sheets are available as a free mobile application:
