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

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. It is a small under shrub with wrinkled leaves and yellowish green flowers.

Description

''Chloanthes stoechadis'' is a small, branched under shrub that usually grows to high with white woolly stems. The leaves are arranged opposite, more or less linear, mostly long, roughly wrinkled above, white woolly underneath, dull green, and margins rolled under. The corolla are yellowish green or greenish blue, borne singly in upper leaf axils, tubular to long, mostly hairy inside,

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long or almost non-existent. The lower lobe longer, long and wide at the base, the

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long and

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both protruding beyond the floral tube. The

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lobes narrowly oval-shaped, blistered with margins curved or rolled under. The

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leaf-like,

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, linear to lance-shaped, long and wide, wrinkled and blistered on upper surface, woolly underneath, somewhat rough with short, hard protuberances. Flowering occurs usually from July to October, followed by dry, hemispherical fruit.

Taxonomy and naming

''Chloanthes stoechadis'' was first formally described in 1810 by

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and description was published in ''Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805''. The

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(''stoechadis'') refers to its similarity to "lavender" leaves.

Distribution and habitat

This species usually grows near rocky outcrops, on poor sandy soils in woodland, sclerophyll forest and heath north of

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in New South Wales. A rare species in Western Australia, also found in scattered locations in Queensland.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15359033 stoechadis Flora of New South Wales Flora of Western Australia Flora of Queensland Lamiales of Australia Plants described in 1810 Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)