Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Prostanthera incisa
Common name
Cut-leaved mint-bush, Cut-leaf mint-bush
Family
Lamiaceae
Where found
Forest and shrubland. Coast and ranges.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m high. Branches longitudinally ridged to 4-angled, moderately to densely covered with short curled hairs and glands on very short stalks, becoming hairless. The whole plant strongly and unpleasantly aromatic. Leaves opposite each other, 0.8–5 cm long, 4–12 mm wide, green, lower surface paler, covered with short, curled hairs at the leaf base, densely covered with more or less stalkless glands, margins coarsely toothed, tips blunt; base more or less continuing down the stems. Flowers pale mauve to purple, with a bell-shaped tube, 7–10 mm long, 2-lipped, 5-lobed. Calyx 2-lobed. Flowers in leafy to leafless clusters. Flowering: spring.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Prostanthera~incisa (accessed 3 February, 2021)
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