Westringia glabra

Common name:         Violet Westringia

Conservation status: ...

Etymology:   

• The specific epithet (glabra) is a Latin word meaning "hairless", "bald" or "smooth"

Flowers

• It has pink, mauve or purple flowers that have darker purple spots in the throat

• The green calyx outer surface usually has occasional hairs, lobes more or less triangular shaped, 3–3.7 mm long and 1–1.5 mm wide

• Flowering occurs throughout the year

Fruit:                            

Leaves:         

• The leaves are borne in whorls of three, narrow-elliptic to lance-shaped, 12–20 mm long, 3–4 mm wide

• Edges are rolled under, upper and lower surface smooth to sparsely hairy and the petiole about 1 mm long

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Roots:         

Habit:        

• Westringia glabra is a small shrub to 0.5–1 m high 

Habitat:   

• On skeletal soils in gorges, rocky slopes and woodland

Distribution:                  

• NSW and Victoria

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy and naming

  • Westringia glabra was first formally described in 1810 by botanist Robert Brown and the description was published in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae