Westringia blakeana

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Flowers

• The bracteoles 3.8–5.5 mm long, the calyx is green, smooth or with occasional hairs on the outer surface

• The corolla about 10 mm long, petals triangular shaped, narrow, 5–5.5 mm long, 1–1.3 mm wide, light mauve to whitish with brown spots

• Flowering may occur throughout the year though mostly in spring

Fruit:                            

Leaves:         

• The leaves are borne in whorls of three, lanceolate to linear shaped, about 20–60 mm long, 3–5 mm wide

• The margins are slightly curved under, both surfaces smooth or with occasional hairs and the petiole 1–4 mm long

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Habit:        

• A shrub that grows to 1–4 m high

Habitat:   

• Wet sclerophyll forest and rainforest edges, often near streams or waterfalls

Distribution:                  

• North-eastern NSW and south-eastern Queensland

Additional notes:   

• Taxonomy and naming

  • Westringia blakeana was first formally described in 1949 by Joseph Robert Bernard Boivin from a specimen collected by Stanley Thatcher Blake in Lamington National Park at an altitude of 2,400 feet, and the description was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westringia_blakeana (2023)