Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Prostanthera walteri
Common name
Blotchy mint-bush
Family
Lamiaceae
Where found
Forest between 1000–1400 m altitude. Ranges and eastern edge of the tablelands south west and west of Eden.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high, sprawling. Branches approximately cylindrical, densely hairy with appressed to somewhat spreading hairs, glandular, often forming a wiry entanglement. Leaves opposite each other, 1–3.8 cm long, 5–17 mm wide, surfaces hairy as on the branches, upper surface grooved and appearing hairless, but sparsely hairy especially on the midrib, margins entire and curved down, tips blunt. Flowers blue-green to pinkish or white, rarely green-yellow, prominently purple-veined; 15–26 mm long, with a narrow tube, 2-lipped, 5-lobed. Calyx 2-lobed. Flowers single at the base of paired leaves, forming leafy elongated clusters. Flowering: summer.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Prostanthera~walteri (accessed 3 February, 2021)
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