Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Prostanthera incana

Flowering stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, north of Eden

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, near Bermagui

Line drawings. g. flowering branchlet; leaf. P Strickland, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Velvet mint-bush

Family

Lamiaceae

Where found

Forest and woodland. Coast and ranges.

Notes

Shrub to 2.5 m high. Branches densely covered with long spreading hairs. The whole plant slightly aromatic. Leaves opposite each other, 0.9–1.8 cm long, 6–13 mm wide, surfaces dull 'dusty' green, paler below, margins scalloped and slightly curved down, tips blunt. Flowers mauve, 8–10 mm long, with a bell-shaped tube, 2-lipped, the upper lip notched to 2-lobed, the lower lip 3-lobed. Calyx 2-lobed. Flowers in leafless to leafy clusters, sometimes branched. Flowering:  August–December.

Vulnerable Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Prostanthera~incana  (accessed 3 February, 2021)