Prostanthera teretifolia explained

Prostanthera teretifolia, commonly known as turpentine bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales. It is an erect to spreading, aromatic shrub with more or less cylindrical leaves and bluish-purple flowers.

Description

Prostanthera teretifolia is an erect to spreading, aromatic shrub that typically grows to a height of with branches that are densely hairy and glandular. The leaves are greyish green, more or less cylindrical, long and wide, sometimes with two or three lobes, on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged in groups on the ends of leafy branchlets, the sepals about long forming a tube wide with two lobes, the upper lobe long. The petals are bluish-purple, long forming a tube long. Flowering usually occurs from August to December.[1] [2]

Taxonomy

Prostanthera teretifolia was first formally described in 1908 by Joseph Maiden and Ernst Betche in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.[3] [4]

Distribution and habitat

Turpentine bush grows in open and exposed areas amongst granite outcrops near Torrington on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Conn . Barry J. . Prostanthera teretifolia . Royal Botanic Garden Sydney . 5 October 2020.
  2. Hunter . John T. . Williams . John B. . Conn . Barry J. . Rediscovery of Prostanthera staurophylla F.Muell. and reinstatement of P. teretifolia Maiden & Getche (Lamiaceae) . Telopea . 2006 . 11 . 2 . 122–125 . 5 October 2020.
  3. Web site: Prostanthera teretifolia . Australian Plant Name Index . 5 October 2020.
  4. Maiden . Joseph . Betche . Ernst . Notes from the Botanic Gardens, Sydney No. 13 . Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales . 1908 . 33 . 2 . 313–314 . 5 October 2020.