Prostanthera crocodyloides
Prostanthera crocodyloides commonly known as crocodile mint, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is an upright, aromatic shrub with mauve flowers.Description
Prostanthera crocodyloides is an open, semi-upright to climbing woody shrub to about high. Smaller branches are yellowish green, thickly covered in short, upright and bent hairs to long. Leaves are narrowly oval to egg-shaped, long, wide, mid-green, stiff, tooth-like green hairs to long and longer hairs along the margin. The mauve flowers are borne in leaf axils, pedicel long, calyx tube long, upper lobe long, lower lobe long and corolla long.Taxonomy and naming
Prostanthera crocodyloides was first formally described in 2019 by Trevor Wilson and the description was published in Telopea.The specific epithet refers to 'several crocodilian-like qualities on the leaves'.Distribution and habitat
Crocodile mint grows on slopes, heathy scrubland and woodland in New South Wales.