Chloanthes glandulosa explained

Chloanthes glandulosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is a small shrub with wrinkled leaves and greenish-yellow tubular flowers. It is endemic to New South Wales.

Description

Chloanthes glandulosa is a small shrub to high with narrow egg-shaped to more or less linear leaves, long and wide. The leaf edges are minutely curved under, upper and lower surfaces have short, rigid bristles, upper surface wrinkled, lower surface with prominent veins. The greenish-yellow flowers are on a pedicel long, glandular and covered with short, soft hairs. The calyx long, glandular with soft hairs on the outside and with a few scattered hairs on inner side toward apex. The lobes are narrowly egg-shaped, more or less scalloped with curved edges. The corolla long, tubular, greenish-yellow and a style long, protruding beyond the flower tube. Flowering occurs from July to November and the fruit is a dry drupe more or less elliptic-obovate shaped and long.[1] [2] [3]

Taxonomy and naming

Chloanthes glandulosa was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown and the description was published in Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805.[4] [5] The specific epithet (glandulosa) means "gland bearing".[6]

Distribution and habitat

This species grows in moist, mostly sandy soils in sclerophyll forests in the Blue Mountains from Springwood to Kurrajong.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Conn . B.J . Chloanthes glandulosa . PlantNET-NSW . Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney . 31 May 2021.
  2. Book: Fairley . Alan . Seldom Seen-Rare Plants of Greater Sydney . 2004 . Louise Egerton . Sydney . 1876334991 . 51.
  3. Jessop . J.P . Chloanthes glandulosa . Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens . 1977 . 1 . 2 . 100–102 . 3 June 2021.
  4. Web site: Chloanthes glandulosa . Australian Plant Name Index . 3 June 2021.
  5. Book: Brown . Robert . Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805 . 1810 . London . 514 .
  6. Book: Sharr . Francis Aubi . George . Alex . Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings . 2019 . Four Gables Press . Kardinya, WA . 9780958034180 . 207 . 3rd.