Prostanthera gilesii
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Overview:
Prostanthera gilesii is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae and is endemic to the Mount Canobolas area of NSW
It is a small, compact, spreading shrub with aromatic, narrow egg-shaped to elliptical leaves, and white to yellowish white flowers with purple to dark mauve markings inside the petal tube and pale orange markings on the petal lobes
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Conservation status: Critically Endangered
This mintbush is listed as "critically endangered" under the New South Wales Government Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016
The main threats to the species are its small population size, inappropriate fire regimes, weed invasion, disturbance by pigs and illegal collection of plant material
Etymology:
Prostanthera is derived from the Greek for an appendage
The specific epithet (gilesii) was proposed by Althofer to honour William E. Giles who discovered the species in the 1940s
Flowers
The flowers are arranged singly in three or four upper leaf axils with bracteoles about 3–3.5 mm long at the base.
The sepals are green and form a tube 2.5–3 mm wide with two lobes, the lower lobe 5–6 mm long and 3.5–4 mm wide and the upper lobe 5–6 mm long and 4.5–5.5 mm wide
The petals are white to yellowish white and 12–15 mm long forming a tube 7–9 mm long with purple to dark mauve marking inside the tube
The central lower lobe has pale orange markings and is 10–11 mm long and 4–4.5 mm wide, the side lobes 7–8 mm long and 4 mm wide
The upper lobe is 4–5 mm long and 8–9 mm wide with a central notch about 1 mm deep
Flowering occurs in November and December
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Leaves:
The leaves are aromatic, glossy dark green, paler on the lower side and almost glabrous
Narrow egg-shaped to more elliptical, 15–26 mm long and 6–10 mm wide on a petiole 1–2 mm long
Stem & branches:
Has more or less cylindrical, moderately hairy branchlets
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Habit:
A compact, spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 1 m
Habitat:
Forest dominated by Eucalyptus dalrympleana
Distribution:
Only known from the Mount Canobolas State Conservation Area
Additional notes:
Taxonomy and naming
Prostanthera gilesii was first formally described in 2015 by Barry Conn and Trevor Wilson from an unpublished description by George Althofer and the description was published in the journal Telopea
Molecular studies have demonstrated that P. gilesii is closely related to Prostanthera phylicifolia and Prostanthera volucris
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