Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Prostanthera porcata
Common name
A mint bush
Family
Lamiaceae
Where found
Dry forest on steep rocky slopes. Budawang Range and south to Deua and Wadbilliga National Parks.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high. Branches 4-ridged, hairless, densely glandular. Leaves aromatic when rubbed. Leaves opposite each other, 2.2–3.6 cm long, 7–14 mm wide, mostly hairless, upper surface hairy along the midrib, margins entire or minutely notched to minutely lobed, tips more or less blunt. Flowers deep pink, pink and cream, or sometimes cream throughout, 23–27 mm long, with a narrow tube, 2-lipped, the upper lip notched to 2-lobed, the lower lip 3-lobed, the middle lobe notched. Calyx 2-lobed. Flowers single, at the base of paired leaves. Flowering: spring.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Prostanthera~porcata (accessed 3 February, 2021)
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