Common name: Jockey's Cap
Prostanthera striatiflora F.Muell. APNI* 
Description: Erect shrub 0.5–2 m high, aromatic; branches very sparsely to sparsely hairy or glabrous, very sparsely to sparsely glandular.
Leaves with lamina narrow-ovate to narrow-elliptic, 8–30 mm long, 2–10 mm wide; apex acute to obtuse; base acute to ± attenuate, often subdecurrent; margins entire; surfaces bright green, glabrous, moderately covered with ± sessile glands on upper surface; petiole 0–1 mm long.
Flowers in a terminal, leafy to leafy-bracteose racemose inflorescence; bracteoles persistent, 3–6 mm long. Calyx 6–10 mm long; tube 2.5–3.4 mm long; upper lobe 4.6–6.6 mm long, 10–12 mm long in fruit. Corolla 10–17 mm long, white with purple lines inside tube and throat. Anthers with appendage 2.3–2.9 mm long.
Flowering: July–November
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in woodland of semi-arid regions, in skeletal soils of rocky areas; west from Round Hill Nature Reserve.
NSW subdivisions: NWP, SWP, NFWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Qld W.A. S.A. N.T.
Text by B. J. Conn
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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