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
Chloanthes glandulosa is a small shrub to 30-90 cm high with narrow egg-shaped to more or less linear leaves, 3.5-8 cm long and 4-11 mm 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 long, glandular and covered with short, soft hairs. The calyx 15-20 mm 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 long, tubular, greenish-yellow and a style 35-45 mm 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 long.

Taxonomy and naming
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. The specific epithet (glandulosa) means "gland bearing".

Distribution and habitat
This species grows in moist, mostly sandy soils in sclerophyll forests in the Blue Mountains from Springwood to Kurrajong.