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Prostanthera Palustris
''Prostanthera palustris'', commonly known as swamp mint-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae and is Endemism, endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales. It is a low, spreading, weak shrub with spatula-shaped leaves and pale mauve and white flowers with yellow spots in the petal tube. Description ''Prostanthera palustris'' is a low, spreading, weak shrub that typically grows to a height of , is not aromatic, and has branches with two longitudinal ridges. The leaves are dull green above, paler below, spatula-shaped, long and wide on a Petiole (botany), petiole about long. The flowers are arranged in groups of four to ten in upper leaf axils on Pedicel (botany), pedicels long. The sepals are light green and form a tube long with two lobes, the lower lobe long and the upper lobe long. The petals are pale mauve and white with yellow dots inside, long forming a tube long with two lips. The central lobe of the lower lip is long and wide and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australasian Virtual Herbarium
The ''Australasian Virtual Herbarium'' (AVH) is an online resource that allows access to plant specimen data held by various Australian and New Zealand herbaria. It is part of the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), and was formed by the amalgamation of ''Australia's Virtual Herbarium'' and ''NZ Virtual Herbarium''. As of 12 August 2014, more than five million specimens of the 8 million and upwards specimens available from participating institutions have been databased. Uses This resource is used by academics, students, and anyone interested in research in botany in Australia or New Zealand, since each record tells all that is known about the specimen: where and when it was collected; by whom; its current identification together with the botanist who identified it; and information on habitat and associated species. ALA post processes the original herbarium data, giving further fields with respect to taxonomy and quality of the data. When interrogating individual specimen record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |