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Teucrium puberulum (F.Muell.) Kattari & Bräuchler
Family Lamiaceae
Common name: Red Berry Stick Plant

Teucrium puberulum (F.Muell.) Kattari & Bräuchler APNI*

Synonyms: Spartothamnella puberula (F.Muell.) Maiden & Betche APNI*
Spartothamnella puberula APNI*

Description: Erect shrub, mostly 0.5–1 m high, hairy with branched ± stellate hairs; branches arising from a woody rootstock.

Leaves not caducous, linear, narrow-elliptic or lanceolate, 5–30 mm long, 2–6 mm wide, margins recurved; sessile.

Flowers sessile, borne towards the end of branches; bracts leafy, 5–15 mm long. Calyx 2–4 mm long. Corolla 2.5–3 mm long, greenish white, glandular and minutely pubescent outside, glabrous within except for the villous throat. Style 1–3 mm long.

Drupe 2.5–4 mm diam., reddish.


Flowering: spring–summer.

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in mallee and Acacia woodland with grassy understorey; north from Condobolin.
NSW subdivisions: NWP, SWP
Other Australian states: Qld W.A. N.T.
AVH map***

Text by Barry Conn
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW Vol. 3 as Spartothamnella puberula


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