Prostanthera cruciflora
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| Prostanthera cruciflora | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Lamiaceae |
| Genus: | Prostanthera |
| Species: | P. cruciflora |
| Binomial name | |
| Prostanthera cruciflora | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
Prostanthera cruciflora is a species of flowering plant that is endemic to New South Wales. It is an erect, strongly aromatic shrub with egg-shaped leaves and white flowers with yellow streaks arranged in groups on the ends of branchlets.
Prostanthera cruciflora is an erect, strongly aromatic shrub that typically grows to a height of 1.5–2 m (4 ft 11 in – 6 ft 7 in) with branchlets densely covered with glands. Its leaves are greyish green, egg-shaped, 6–20 mm (0.24–0.79 in) long and 8–15 mm (0.31–0.59 in) wide on a petiole 3–10 mm (0.12–0.39 in) long, and densely glandular. The flowers are arranged in groups of about eight, the sepals about 8 mm (0.31 in) long, forming a tube about 3.5 mm (0.14 in) long with two lobes, the upper lobe about 2.5 mm (0.098 in) long. The petals are 6–9 mm (0.24–0.35 in) long and white with yellow streaks on the lower lobe. Flowering occurs from August to December.[2][3]