Plant originally collected from the Moluccas, Indonesia.
Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves opposite, round-toothed, stalked. Flower clusters in axillary whorls. Flowers with calyx 2-lipped, bell-shaped, veins 15, with spine-tipped teeth, enlarging in fruit and becoming papery. Corolla small, white, fragrant, 2-lipped, the upper lip hooded, lower lip 3-lobed; spring to autumn. Fruit of 4 nutlets.
Grown for the bell-like green calyx and the everlasting flowers that are useful in floristry.
Seed.
Expanded calyx persistent and papery in fruit.
4 species from the Mediterranean to NW India.
Source: (2002). Lavandula. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.