Family: Lamiaceae
Plant: A herb up to 70cm high with semi-succulent stems.
Flowers: Purple to mauve, irregular 2-lipped flower about 1cm long borne on erect leafless spikes.
Flowering: August-March.
Fruit: A small dry fruit about 5mm long.
Leaves: Opposite ovate to orbicular 2-7cm long and 2-4cm wide, on long stalks, toothed, aromatic, slightly succulent and hairy.
Habitat: Usually in moist, sheltered locations in rainforest margins and wet sclerophyll forest.
Features: Irregular purple to mauve flowers. Ovate, toothed, opposite, hairy leaves.
Name:
Plectranthus From Greek = cock’s spur flower.
parviflorus From Latin parvus = small and florus = flowered.
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Type |
Herb |
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Flowers |
Form |
Irregular, Single |
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Colour(s) |
Purple, Mauve |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
Few |
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Flowering Month |
1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Other |
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Colour |
Brown |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Opposite |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Oval, Round |
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Length |
Short, Medium |
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Margins |
Toothed/Serrated |
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Attachment |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
Aromatic, Hairy, |
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Succulent |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Rainforest, Wet sclerophyll forest |
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