Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Prostanthera rugosa
Common name
A mint bush
Family
Lamiaceae
Where found
Forest. Ranges and tablelands between Lake Burragorang and east of Goulburn. Rarely elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub to 1.5 m high. Branches densely covered with long spreading hairs, at least on young growth, and more or less stalkless glands. The whole plant aromatic. Leaves opposite each other, often crowded together; 0.3–0.9 mm long, 2–5 mm wide, thick and fleshy, upper surface sparsely to moderately covered with short, more or less spreading hairs, lower surface hairless or moderately covered with long spreading hairs, especially on the midvein, and densely glandular, margins more or less curved down, and with 2 or 3 blunt lobes on either side, tips more or less blunt. Flowers mauve with a white tinge, 10–13 mm long, with a bell-shaped tube, 2-lipped, 5-lobed. Calyx 2-lobed. Flowers single at the base of paired leaves, forming leafy clusters. Flowering: September–October
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Prostanthera~rugosa (accessed 3 February, 2021)
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