Westringia blakeana explained

Westringia blakeana is a flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae and grows in New South Wales and Queensland. It is a small shrub with mauve to whitish flowers with brown spots and leaves arranged in whorls.

Description

Westringia blakeana is a shrub that grows to high. The leaves are borne in whorls of three, lanceolate to linear shaped, about long, wide, margins slightly curved under, both surfaces smooth or with occasional hairs and the petiole long. The bracteoles long, the calyx is green, smooth or with occasional hairs on the outer surface. The corolla about long, petals triangular shaped, narrow, long, wide, light mauve to whitish with brown spots. Flowering may occur throughout the year though mostly in spring.[1]

Taxonomy and naming

Westringia blakeana was first formally described in 1949 by Joseph Robert Bernard Boivin from a specimen collected by Stanley Thatcher Blake in Lamington National Park at an altitude of 2,400 feet, and the description was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland.[2] [3]

Distribution and habitat

This westringia grows in wet sclerophyll forest and rainforest edges, often near streams or waterfalls in north-eastern New South Wales and south-eastern Queensland.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Westringia blakeana B.Boivin . B.J. Conn . 1992. PlantNET. Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney . 17 September 2021.
  2. Web site: Westringia blakeana . Australian Plant Name Index . 22 November 2021.
  3. Boivin . Joseph . Westringia blakeana . Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland . 1949 . 60 . 109 . 22 November 2021.