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end, 0.8-1.1 mm long at sinus end, sinus hairs 
absent, inner surface of tube with sparse long 
hairs in medial section or glabrous. Nutlets 
2-2.2 mm long. Figs. 31, 9B. 
Additional specimens examined: Australia: Western 
Australia. King Leopold Range, Gibb River road, 42.7 
km SW of turnoff to Mt House Station, May 1985, Aplin 
1020 et al. (NSW, PERTH); near headwaters of King 
Creek, SSW of Mt Humbert, Yampi Peninsula, Yampi 
Sound Defence Training Area, Mar 2001, Barrett RLB 
2135 (PERTH); 13 miles [21 km] S of Halls Creek, Jul 
1968, Beard 5533 (PERTH); between Silent Grove and 
the Bell Gorge parking area, Aug 2005, Byrne 1610 
(PERTH); S side of Cockburn Range, c. 6.5 km W of 
King River, Jul 1974, Carr 3359 & Beauglehole 47138 
(MEL, NSW, PERTH); 1 km NNW of Barker River 
Gorge, Napier Range, Apr 1988, Cranfield 6466 (CANB, 
K, PERTH); Fern Creek, King Leopold Range, Apr 1988, 
Dunlop 7773 & Simon (BRI, DNA, PERTH); Devil’s 
Pass, Napier Range, May 1905, Fitzgerald606 (PERTH); 
near Mt Eliza, May 1905, Fitzgerald 734 (PERTH); 
Silver Gull Creek at spring, c. 14 km SE of Cockatoo 
Island, Apr 1983, Fryxell & Craven 3877 (CANB, MEL, 
PERTH); between McDonald Range and Glenelg River, 
Jul 1950, Gardner 9583 (NSW, PERTH); Fossil Downs, 
Apr 1951, Gardner 10074 (PERTH); Lower western 
slopes of Mt Bell, King Leopold Ranges, May 1988, 
Goble-Garratt 617 (PERTH); Near Ord River, in 1884, 
Johnston s.n. (MEL); 14 km SE of Mt Kitchener, Jun 
1987, Kenneally 10549 & Hyland (PERTH); Wulwuldji 
Spring, Bungle Bungle NP, Nov 1989, Menkhorst 907 
(DNA, PERTH); Windjana Gorge NP, in immediate 
vicinity of Carpenters Gap rockshelter, Jul 1997, 
Wallis LW97A/13 (PERTH); Napier Range, south side, 
Windjana Gorge NP, Jun 1988, Wilson 12799 (BRI, 
PERTH); March Fly Creek, 85 km NE of Lennard River 
crossing, Jun 1988, Wilson 12895 (PERTH). Northern 
Territory. Gregory NP, tributary of Upper East Baines 
River, 50 km from Bullita Outstation, Apr 1996, Walsh 
4502 & Jones (DNA). 
Distribution and habitat: Anisomeles 
farinacea is widespread in the Kimberley 
region of Western Australia, from Cockatoo 
Island in the west to south-east of Kununnurra, 
and is known from a single collection in the 
Northern Territory (Map 2). It frequently 
inhabits watercourses or creek-banks, with 
genera such as Pandanus, Terminalia and 
Livistona, but it also grows on limestone 
hills or on sandstone (or even granite) scree 
slopes with closed-forest species or woodland 
species. Soil varies from sandy loam to black 
clay. 
Phenology: Flowers are recorded from March 
to August; fruits are recorded from April to 
October. 
Notes: The colour of the corolla has been 
variously described on herbarium labels as 
mauve, purple, purple and white, blue, or 
violet. 
Anisomeles farinacea is closely related to 
A. brevipilosa. Distinguishing features are 
given under that species. 
Conservation status: Least Concern. 
Etymology: The epithet is from the Latin 
farina , meaning flour, given in reference to 
the very pale colour of the stems and lower 
leaf surfaces. 
10. Anisomeles grandibractea A.R.Bean 
sp. nov. bracteis floralibus maximis, pilis 
brevibus in pagina superiore, monochasiis 
paucifloris et pilis marginalibus brevibus 
insidentibus lobis calycis distinguitur. Typus: 
Australia: Northern Territory. Deaf Adder 
Gorge, 23 February 1977, C.R. Dunlop 4438 
(holo: DNA; iso: MEL). 
Erect or spreading shrub, 0.5-1.5 m high. 
Upper stems and rachises without patent 
hispid hairs, or with patent hispid hairs; short 
curved hairs retrorse or antrorse, sparse or 
moderately dense; stalked glandular hairs 
absent; sessile glands 8-96 mm 2 Cauline 
leaves 44-116 mm long, 27-62 mm wide, 
1.5-3.5 times longer than wide, base obtuse, 
broadly cuneate or narrowly cuneate (< 60°) 
or attenuate; marginal lobes crenate, dentate 
or serrate, regular, 12-27 on each side, acute 
or obtuse, 0.3-2.2 mm deep; petioles 12-31 
mm long, 16-40% of lamina length. Lamina 
upper surface indumentum erect or curved, 
eglandular, 0.2-0.7 mm long, sparse (hairs 
> 0.2 mm apart) or moderately dense (hairs 
0.1-0.2 mm apart), sessile glands 8-48 mm 2 ; 
lower surface indumentum erect or curved, 
eglandular, 0.3-0.6 mm long, moderately 
dense (hairs 0.1-0.2 mm apart) or dense (hairs 
< 0.1 mm apart), sessile glands 8-112 mm 2 ; 
transition from leaves to floral bracts gradual. 
Floral bracts elliptical, ovate or broadly-ovate, 
12-78 mm long, 9-30 mm wide, consistently 
exceeding verticils. Verticils (inflorescence 
clusters) all separated on rachis, cymes once 
dichasial at base then monochasial, or twice 
dichasial, with 2-8 flowers per monochasium, 
peduncles 0-7 mm long on lowermost cluster; 
