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 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.