Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Prostanthera phylicifolia
Common name
Spiked Mint-bush
Family
Lamiaceae
Where found
Forest, heath, and shrubland, on rocky outcrops and hillsides. Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, ACT and tablelands. Ranges south of the Kings Highway. Coastal south west of Pambula.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high. Branches 4-ridged, sparsely covered with short, appressed, hairs between the ridges, and with more or less stalkless glands. The whole plant slightly aromatic. Leaves opposite each other, 0.5–1.5 cm long, 1.5–4 mm wide, mid-green, hairless, sparsely glandular, margins entire and strongly curved down, tips blunt. Flowers white to pale lilac with purple spots in the throat and yellow spots on the inside of the lower lobe, 12–15 mm long, with a bell-shaped tube, 2-lipped, 5-lobed. Calyx 2-lobed. Flowers single at the base of paired leaves. Flowering: October–January
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Prostanthera~phylicifolia (accessed 3 February, 2021)
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