Common name: Mount Vincent Mint Bush
Prostanthera stricta R.T.Baker APNI* 
Description: Erect, ± shrub, to 2 m high and to 3 m diam., aromatic; branches densely hairy with spreading hairs; glandular.
Leaves with lamina ovate, 8–13 mm long, 5–9 mm wide; apex obtuse; base obtuse to rounded; margins entire and often recurved; surfaces mid green, densely hairy with spreading hairs; petiole c. 1 mm long.
Flowers in a terminal botryoid; bracteoles persistent, 3–3.5 mm long. Calyx 4–4.5 mm long; tube c. 2 mm long; upper lobe 2 mm long, not enlarged in fruit. Corolla 6–9 mm long, pale mauve to deep mauve-purple, with dark pink-mauve dots in throat. Anthers with appendage 0.5 mm long.
Flowering: winter–spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in sclerophyll forest, in sandy alluvium near watercourses; in the Widden Valley district.
NSW subdivisions: CT, CWS
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Vulnerable; Commonwealth EPBC: Vulnerable
Populations are often clonal.
Text by B. J. Conn
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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