Newcastelia
Newcastelia spodiotricha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Lamiaceae
Subfamily:	Prostantheroideae
Genus:	Newcastelia F.Muell.[1][2]

Newcastelia is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae,^[3] first described in 1857 by Ferdinand von Mueller, who placed it in the family, Verbenaceae.^[2] The entire genus is endemic to Australia.^[3]

Species^[3]

1. Newcastelia bracteosa F.Muell. - Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territory
2. Newcastelia cephalantha F.Muell. - Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland
3. Newcastelia cladotricha F.Muell. - Western Australia, Northern Territory
4. Newcastelia elliptica Munir - Western Australia, Northern Territory
5. Newcastelia hexarrhena F.Muell. - Western Australia
6. Newcastelia insignis E.Pritz. - Western Australia
7. Newcastelia interrupta Munir - Queensland
8. Newcastelia roseoazurea Rye - Western Australia^[4]
9. Newcastelia spodiotricha F.Muell. - Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territory
10. Newcastelia velutina Munir - Queensland

Gallery[edit]

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  N. cephalantha flower
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  N. cephalantha
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  N.spodiotricha seed heads

See also[edit]

• Rye, B. L. (1996) A taxonomic review of the genera Lachnostachys, Newcastelia and Physopsis (Chloanthaceae) in Western Australia
• Wheeler, J. R.; Rye, B. L.; Koch, B. L.; Wilson, A. J. G.; Western Australian Herbarium (1992). Flora of the Kimberley region. Western Australian Herbarium. Como, W.A.
• Blackall, William E.; Grieve, Brian J. (1981). How to know Western Australian wildflowers : a key to the flora of the extratropical regions of Western Australia. Part IIIB, (Epacridaceae-Lamiaceae). University of W.A. Press. Perth.

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