''Chloanthes parviflora'' is a species of flowering plant in the family

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. It is a small, rounded shrub with dark green, linear leaves and mauve tubular flowers. It grows in New South Wales and Queensland.

Description

''Chloanthes parviflora'' is a small, rounded shrub to high, leaves pressed against the stems and usually woody at the base of the plant. The leaves are pale green, rough, linear, long, wide, upper surface wrinkled, blister-like, underside white and woolly, margins rolled under. The tubular, mauve flowers are borne singly in leaf axils, long, purple-spotted and hairy in the tube, lower lobe larger, long on a

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mostly long,

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about long. The bracts are leaf-like,

sessile Sessility, or sessile, may refer to: * Sessility (motility), organisms which are not able to move about * Sessility (botany), flowers or leaves that grow directly from the stem or peduncle of a plant * Sessility (medicine), tumors and polyps that ...

, linear or linear-lance shaped, rolled edges, long, wide, upper surface wrinkled, underneath woolly, smooth, slightly warty or with small, hard protuberances. The smaller bracts sessile, linear or needle-shaped, long, about wide, wrinkled and smooth on upper surface, woolly on the underside. The

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has 5 lobes, linear to linear-oblong shaped, smooth and glandular on the outer surface, smooth on the inside, long, wide at the base. Flowering occurs from June to November but mostly in spring and the fruit is usually oblong to obovate, dry, somewhat compressed, in diameter and notched at the apex.

Taxonomy and naming

'' Chloanthes parviflora'' was first formally described in 1845 by

Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers (26 December 1816 in Mühlhausen – 18 June 1853 in Berlin) was a German botanist. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation when citing a botanical name. He received his education at the Universities of Greif ...

and the description was published in ''Repertorium Botanices Systematicae''. The

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(''parvilflora'') means "small flowered".

Distribution and habitat

This species grows in sandy to gravelly soils in heath and sclerophyll forest. In New South Wales it grows from north of

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and the

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. In the south of the state between Braidwood and

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. In Queensland it is found mostly in the eastern and south-eastern locations, including Jericho, Blackdown, and Brisbane, near

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References

parviflora Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland Lamiales of Australia Plants described in 1845 Taxa named by Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers {{Lamiaceae-stub