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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.

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

Species

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
9. Newcastelia spodiotricha F.Muell. - Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territory
10. Newcastelia velutina Munir - Queensland

Gallery

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

See also

• 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.

References

1. "Newcastelia". Australian Plant Name Index, IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
2. ^ Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1857) Nova genera et species aliquot rariores in Plagis Australiae Intratropicis nuperrime detecta. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 9: 22. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
3. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Newcastelia
4. "Newcastelia roseoazurea (Rye)". FloraBase. Department of Parks and Wildlife (Western Australia). Retrieved 22 April 2017.

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