Teucrium  junceum    

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Plant  information

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• It is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992

Etymology:   

Flowers:                  

• The flowers are borne on a pedicel about 3 mm long 

• Scale-like bracts 0.5–1.5 mm long

• The five sepals are 1.5–2.5 mm long, the petals white and 3–4 mm long

• Flowering mainly occurs in summer

Fruit:                         

• An orange to red drupe 2–4 mm in diameter

Leaves:         

• The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, narrow-elliptic or lance-shaped

• 3–18 mm long, 2–3 mm wide 

• Often scale-like or shed from older stems

Stem & branches: 

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Habit:        

• An openly-branched, scrambling shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–2 m 

• Has glabrous stems that are square in cross-section

Habitat:   

• Grows in dry forest, including dry rainforest

Distribution:                  

• It is widespread in eastern Queensland, south from near Mount Surprise to near Camden in NSW

Additional notes:     

• Teucrium junceum is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a scrambling, openly-branched shrub, with small leaves, white flowers and orange to red fruit.

• Taxonomy

  • This germander was first formally described in 1847 by Allan Cunningham in Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers' Repertorium Botanices Systematicae

  • Was given the name Spartothamnus junceus.

  • In 2016, Stefan Kattari and Günther Heubl changed the name to Teucrium junceum in the journal Taxon

Sources of information:

• (2023)