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(BRI); Community orchard and garden, Mapoon (Old 
Mapoon), Mar 2005, Waterhouse BMW7207 (BRI, 
CANB); Mapoon, near dump, Jun 2008, Wannan 5283 & 
Graham (BRI, NSW). 
Distribution and habitat : Anisomeles 
antrorsa is endemic to Queensland. It is 
confined to the western coast of Cape York 
Peninsula between Old Mapoon and North 
Camp, over a distance of c. 120 km (Map 
2). It grows in sandy soil in open forest 
dominated by Eucalyptus tetrodonta and 
Corymbia nesophila (Blakely) K.D.Hill & 
L.A.S.Johnson. 
Phenology : Flowers are recorded from 
January to July; fruits from May to July. 
Notes : Anisomeles antrorsa is distinguished 
by the antrorse hairs on the stems, the small 
leaves with short petioles, the prostrate 
trailing habit, the long nutlets (2.5-27 mm), 
and the short calyx fringe hairs. It is most 
closely related to A. ajugacea , but differs by 
the shallower leaf marginal lobes, the shorter 
hairs on the leaves and the exterior of the 
calyx, the corolla platform with 1-20 hairs 
(versus glabrous) and the hairs of the corolla 
tube annulus only 0.15-0.2 mm long (versus 
0.4-0.5 mm long). 
Conservation status : Least Concern. 
Etymology : From the Latin antrorsus , 
meaning ‘forward pointing’, and given in 
reference to the antrorsely directed hairs on 
the stems in this species. 
3. Anisomeles brevipilosa A.R.Bean sp. 
nov. pilis cauli et paginae inferiori foliorum 
insidentibus longitudine minus quam 0.2 
mm, pilis exterioribus calycis fructificantis 
0.3-0.7 mm longis, pedunculis longis 
cymarum imarum et foliis crebro lanceolatis 
distinguitur. Typus: Australia: Northern 
Territory. Limmen National Park, c. 1 km N 
of southern lost city turnoff, southern park 
boundary, 22 April 2008, D.L. Lewis 733 
(holo: DNA; iso: MO). 
Erect or spreading shrub, 0.6-2 m high. 
Upper stems and rachises without patent 
hispid hairs; short curved hairs retrorse, 
dense or very dense, obscuring stem surface 
at x40 magnification; stalked glandular hairs 
absent; sessile glands 96-192 mm 2 . Cauline 
leaves 57-93 mm long, 13-23 mm wide, 
3-6.6 times longer than wide, base narrowly 
cuneate (< 60°) or attenuate; marginal lobes 
serrate, irregular or regular, 4-16 on each 
side, obtuse, 0.2-2 mm deep; petioles 8-20 
mm long, 9-35% of lamina length. Lamina 
upper surface indumentum erect or curved, 
eglandular or appressed, eglandular 0.1-0.2 
mm long, sparse (hairs > 0.2 mm apart), 
moderately dense (hairs 0.1-0.2 mm apart) or 
dense (hairs < 0.1 mm apart), sessile glands 
8-112 mm 2 ; lower surface indumentum erect 
or curved, eglandular or appressed, eglandular 
0.1-0.2 mm long, moderately dense (hairs 
0.1-0.2 mm apart) or dense (hairs <0.1 mm 
apart) or very dense, obscuring surface at x40 
magnification, sessile glands 48-256 mm 2 ; 
transition from leaves to floral bracts abrupt. 
Floral bracts linear or lanceolate, 4-28 mm 
long, 1-6 mm wide, not consistently exceeding 
verticils. Verticils (inflorescence clusters) 
overlapping near apex or all separated on 
rachis, cymes entirely monochasial, or once 
dichasial at base then monochasial, or twice 
dichasial (±globose), with 3-12 flowers per 
monochasium, peduncles 1-20 mm long on 
lowermost cluster; bracteoles spathulate or 
linear, 2.5-75 mm long, 0.3-1 mm wide. 
Corolla tube longer than calyx, or same length 
as calyx; annulus 3.5-3.8 mm from base of 
corolla, annulus hairs 0.2-0.25 mm long; 
upper lip elliptical, 4.5-5.2 mm long, with 
glandular hairs on outer surface; lower lip 
5.5-6.8 mm long to end of lateral lobes, 11.7- 
13.1 mm long overall, with 20-100 eglandular 
hairs on platform. Longest stamens 12-13 
mm long from base of corolla tube; filament 
hairs 07-1.2 mm long, mainly at distal end. 
Style 12-13 mm long; longer stigma lobe 
0.6-07 mm long, shorter stigma lobe 0.4-0.5 
mm long. Fruiting calyces 0.9-3 mm apart on 
rachilla; fruiting calyx cylindrical, 6.6-10 mm 
long, 2.9-4.2 mm wide at lobe apices, 2.3-2.8 
times longer than wide, exterior surface with 
all hairs same size and type, hairs eglandular, 
0.3-0.8 mm long, moderately dense to dense, 
sessile glands 96-176 mm 2 ; lobes acute, 
17-3.9 mm long. Fruiting calyx fringe hairs 
longer at sinus end than at apical end, 0.15— 
0.3 mm long at apical end, 07-1.2 mm long at 
