Muniria angustisepala
Muniria angustisepala is a flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae and is endemic to the Northern Territory. It is an erect shrub with softly hairy, warty leaves and pale yellow, woolly flowers.
Description
Muniria angustisepala is shrub which grows to a height of about and has branches that have four corners in cross-section and are densely hairy. The leaves are elliptic to lance-shaped, long, wide, softly hairy, have a wrinkled, blistered upper surface. The leaf stalk is a further long.The flowers are solitary in groups of up to three in leaf axils on a short, sticky, hairy stalk. There are sticky, hairy bracts and bracteoles at the base of the flower. The five sepals are long and joined at their bases to form a short tube. The sepals are linear to narrow lance-shaped, sticky and hairy and ribbed on the outside. The petals are pale yellow, long and joined to form a tube long, sticky and slightly hairy on the outside but glabrous on the inside except for a dense ring of hairs around the ovary and a few hairs on the largest petal lobe. The petal lobes are broad egg-shaped and about long with the middle lower lobe the largest.
The four stamens extend beyond the end of the tube, the lower pair longer than the upper ones. Flowering occurs from January to September and is followed by fruit which is oblong but with four distinct ridges and has the sepals attached.