Prostanthera prunelloides

Prostanthera prunelloides is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is a shrub with four-ridged branches, egg-shaped to round leaves and white or pale mauve flowers.

Description

Prostanthera prunelloides is an erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of and has four-ridged, slightly aromatic branches. The leaves are egg-shaped to circular, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged in groups on the ends of branchlets, each flower with bracteoles about long at the base but that fall off as the flower develops. The sepals are long forming a tube long with two lobes, the upper lobe long. The petals are white to pale mauve and long.

Taxonomy

Prostanthera prunelloides was formally described in 1810 by Robert [Brown (botanist, born 1773)|Robert Brown] in his treatise Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae [Van Diemen].

Distribution and habitat

This mintbush grows in forests and woodland, often near creeks, on the coast and tablelands of New South Wales from Murwillumbah to the Budawang Range.