Prostanthera porcata

Prostanthera porcata is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae and is endemic to the Budawang Range in south-eastern New South Wales. It is a small, erect shrub with glabrous branches, elliptic leaves and deep pink or pink and cream-coloured flowers.

Description

Prostanthera porcata is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of and has four-ridged, glabrous, densely glandular branches. The leaves are elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers appear singly in leaf axils on a pedicel long with bracteoles long at the base. The sepals are long forming a tube long with two lobes long. The petals are deep pink or cream-coloured shading to pink on the lobes, long forming a tube long. Flowering occurs in spring.

Taxonomy

The species was formally described in 1984 by Barry Conn in the Adelaide [Botanic Garden|Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens], based on plant material collected in Budawang [National Park].

Distribution and habitat

This mintbush grows in forests on steep rocky slopes in association with Eucalyptus agglomerata and E. sieberi and is only known from the Budawang Range in south-eastern New South Wales.