Prostanthera scutellarioides is a species of flowering plant that is endemic to New South Wales. It is an erect, or low-lying, faintly aromatic shrub with linear leaves and pale to deep mauve flowers arranged in leaf axils.
Prostanthera scutellarioides is an erect or low-lying, faintly aromatic shrub that typically grows to a height of and has ridged branches. The leaves are linear, long and wide gradually tapering to a petiole up to long. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils with bracteoles about long at the base. The sepals are long forming a tube long with two lobes, the upper lobe long. The petals are pale to deep mauve and long. Flowering mainly occurs from spring to early summer.[1]
This mintbush was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown who gave it the name Chiloides scutellarioides in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.[2] [3] In 1895, John Isaac Briquet changed the name to Prostanthera scutellarioides, publishing the change in Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien.[4] [5]
Prostanthera scutellarioides gows in woodland and forest on the coast and tablelands of New South Wales north from the Windsor district.