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Chloanthes glandulosa

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Chloanthes glandulosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Genus: Chloanthes
Species:
C. glandulosa
Binomial name
Chloanthes glandulosa

Chloanthes glandulosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is a small shrub with wrinkled leaves and greenish-yellow tubular flowers. It is endemic to New South Wales.

Description

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Chloanthes glandulosa is a small shrub to 30–90 cm (12–35 in) high with narrow egg-shaped to more or less linear leaves, 3.5–8 cm (1.4–3.1 in) long and 4–11 mm (0.16–0.43 in) wide. The leaf edges are minutely curved under, upper and lower surfaces have short, rigid bristles, upper surface wrinkled, lower surface with prominent veins. The greenish-yellow flowers are on a pedicel 4–7 mm (0.16–0.28 in) long, glandular and covered with short, soft hairs. The calyx 15–20 mm (0.59–0.79 in) long, glandular with soft hairs on the outside and with a few scattered hairs on inner side toward apex. The lobes are narrowly egg-shaped, more or less scalloped with curved edges. The corolla 35–50 mm (1.4–2.0 in) long, tubular, greenish-yellow and a style 35–45 mm (1.4–1.8 in) long, protruding beyond the flower tube. Flowering occurs from July to November and the fruit is a dry drupe more or less elliptic-obovate shaped and 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) long.[2][3][4]

Taxonomy and naming

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Chloanthes glandulosa was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown and the description was published in Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805.[5][6] The specific epithet (glandulosa) means "gland bearing".[7]

Distribution and habitat

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This species grows in moist, mostly sandy soils in sclerophyll forests in the Blue Mountains from Springwood to Kurrajong.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Chloanthes glandulosa". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
  2. ^ a b Conn, B.J. "Chloanthes glandulosa". PlantNET-NSW. Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  3. ^ Fairley, Alan (2004). Seldom Seen-Rare Plants of Greater Sydney. Sydney: Louise Egerton. p. 51. ISBN 1876334991.
  4. ^ Jessop, J.P (1977). "Chloanthes glandulosa" (PDF). Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. 1 (2): 100–102. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  5. ^ "Chloanthes glandulosa". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  6. ^ Brown, Robert (1810). Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805. Vol. 1. London. p. 514.
  7. ^ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 207. ISBN 9780958034180.