Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Prostanthera prunelloides

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, west of Ulladulla

Common name

A mint bush

Family

Lamiaceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, and stream banks. Western part of the Sydney area. Blue Mountains. Ranges west and north west of Ulladulla.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high. Branches 4-ridged, usually more or less warty, with short, curled hairs between the ridges, moderately covered with more or less stalkless glands. The whole plant slightly aromatic. Leaves opposite each other, 1.6–6.5 cm long, 9–40 mm wide, light to mid-green, densely covered with more or less stalkless glands, hairless, or sparsely hairy on the veins on the lower surface, margins entire or finely toothed, tips more or less blunt. Flowers white with a faint mauve tinge inside the throat, pale mauve, or rarely with a pink tinge, 12–15 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 clusters. Flowering: spring.

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