Prostanthera eungella
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|authority = B.J.Conn & K.M.Proft{{cite web|title=Prostanthera eungella|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/5999424|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=30 August 2020}}
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Prostanthera eungella is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae and is endemic to the Eungella region in Queensland. It is an erect shrub with narrow egg-shaped leaves with small teeth, and mauve flowers that are white inside the petal tube and arranged in upper leaf axils.
Description
Prostanthera eungella is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of about {{cvt|1|m}} with hairy, glandular stems. The leaves are dark green, paler on the lower surface, narrow egg-shaped, {{cvt|40–45|mm}} long and {{cvt|10.5–11.5|mm}} wide on a petiole about {{cvt|4|mm}} long. There are up to six teeth up to {{cvt|0.5|mm}} long on the sides of the leaves. The flowers are arranged singly or in pairs in six to twenty leaf axils near the ends of branchlets, each flower on a pedicel {{cvt|2–4|mm}} long. The sepals are green, densely glandular and form a tube {{cvt|2.5–3|mm}} long with two lobes, the lower lobe {{cvt|2–2.5|mm}} long {{cvt|4|mm}} wide and the upper lobe about {{cvt|2|mm}} long. The petals are {{cvt|10–12|mm}} long, mauve and white inside the petal tube. The lower lip has three lobes, the centre lobe broadly spatula-shaped, {{cvt|6–8|mm}} long and about {{cvt|7|mm}} wide, the side lobes about {{cvt|4.5|mm}} long and {{cvt|2.5|mm}} wide. The upper lip is {{cvt|4.5|mm}} long and about {{cvt|7.5|mm}} wide with a central notch {{cvt|1–1.5|mm}} deep. Flowering has been recorded in May and December.{{cite journal |last1=Conn |first1=Barry J. |last2=Henwood |first2=Murray J. |last3=Proft |first3=Kirstin M. |last4=Wilson |first4=Trevor J. |title=Molecular phylogenetics reveals a new species of Prostanthera from tropical Queensland with links to more southerly taxa |journal=Telopea |date=2016 |volume=19 |pages=18–20 |doi=10.7751/telopea10037|doi-access=free }}
Taxonomy
Prostanthera eungella was first formally described in 2016 by Barry Conn and Kirstin M. Proft in the journal Telopea from specimens collected north-west of Eungella township.{{cite web|title=Prostanthera eungella|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/6000102|publisher=APNI|access-date=30 August 2020}}
Distribution and habitat
Conservation status
Prostanthera eungella is classified as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.{{cite web |title=Species profile—Prostanthera eungella |url=https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species-search/details/?id=35828 |publisher=Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science |access-date=30 August 2020}}
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Category:Lamiales of Australia