Teucrium argutum

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Phylogeny & links to associated information

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Plant  information

Common name:        Native Germander

Etymology:   

Flowers:                  

• Flowers are arranged singly at the base of leaf-like bracts on a pedicel up to 2 mm long

• The five sepals are 4–7 mm long, joined at the base for about half their length

• Densely covered with stalked and sessile glands

• The petals are pink-purple and 8–10 mm long

• Flowering occurs from December to June

Fruit:                         

Leaves:         

• The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs

• Broadly egg-shaped to triangular

• 15–50 mm long and 12–20 mm wide on a petiole 3–18 mm long

• The leaves are hairy and have toothed or wavy edges

Stem & branches: 

• Densely hairy branches 

• Square in cross-section

Habit:        

• It is a perennial herb that typically grows to a height of 50 cm

• Often suckering and scrambling

Habitat:   

• Grows in forest and woodland

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to eastern Australia

• Queensland, south to near Sydney

Additional notes:        

• Taxonomy

  • Was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen

  • In 2018, Anthony Bean selected the specimens collected near the Hawkesbury River as the lectotype

Sources of information:

• (2023)