''Prostanthera hindii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family

Lamiaceae The Lamiaceae ( ) or Labiatae are a family of flowering plants commonly known as the mint, deadnettle or sage family. Many of the plants are aromatic in all parts and include widely used culinary herbs like basil, mint, rosemary, sage, savory ...

and is endemic to the Central Tablelands of New South Wales. It is a small, erect shrub with densely hairy branches, egg-shaped leaves, and mauve flowers with deep mauve to dark purple colouration inside the petal tube.

Description

''Prostanthera hindii'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of and has densely hairy, densely glandular branchlets. The leaves are dark green above, paler below, almost glabrous, egg-shaped to narrow egg-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged singly in four to ten upper leaf axils with bracteoles about long at the base. The sepals are maroon and form a tube wide with two lobes, the lower lobe about long and wide and the upper lobe about long and wide. The petals are mauve and long forming a tube long with deep mauve to dark purple colouration inside the tube. The central lower lobe is broadly spatula-shaped, long and wide, the side lobes long and wide. The upper lobe is broadly egg-shaped, about long and wide. Flowering mainly occurs from Spring to early summer.

Taxonomy and naming

''Prostanthera hindii'' was first formally described in 1997 by

Barry Conn Barry John Conn (Barry Conn, born 1948), is an Australian botanist. He was awarded a Ph.D. from Adelaide University in 1982 for work on ''Prostanthera''. Career Conn's first appointment as a botanist was with the Lae Herbarium in 1974. He ...

in the journal '' Telopea''. The

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(''hindii'') honours Peter Hind, who, with Barry Conn, collected the

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material.

Distribution and habitat

This mint bush grows in '' Eucalyptus'' woodland with a shrubby understorey and is confined to the Central Tablelands of New South Wales.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15355031 hindii Flora of New South Wales Lamiales of Australia Plants described in 1997 Taxa named by Barry John Conn