''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.

Description

''Prostanthera cruciflora'' is an erect, strongly aromatic shrub that typically grows to a height of with branchlets densely covered with glands. Its leaves are greyish green, egg-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long, and densely glandular. The flowers are arranged in groups of about eight, the sepals about long, forming a tube about long with two lobes, the upper lobe about long. The petals are long and white with yellow streaks on the lower lobe. Flowering occurs from August to December.

Taxonomy and naming

''Prostanthera cruciflora'' was first formally described in 1967 by James Hamlyn Willis in the journal '' Muelleria''. The

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Distribution and habitat

This mint bush grows in heath on exposed rock outcrops in the Mount Kaputar National Park and on nearby ranges.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15355010 cruciflora Flora of New South Wales Lamiales of Australia Plants described in 1967 Taxa named by James Hamlyn Willis