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Hemigenia purpurea, with the common name of narrow-leaved hemigenia is a small plant growing in the Sydney and Nowra districts of eastern Australia. Often found in poor soils in heathland with a relatively high rainfall. By the coast or in the Blue Mountains.[2]

Narrow-leaved hemigenia
Hemigenia purpurea at Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Australia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Lamiaceae
Genus:	Hemigenia
Species:	H. purpurea
Binomial name
Hemigenia purpurea R.Br.[1]

A small shrub up to 2 metres tall. Leaves in whorls of three. Leaves hairless, narrow, 1 to 1.6 cm long, 1 mm wide, wedged shape with an acute angle at the base of the leaf. Narrow and pointed at the end of the leaf. Leaf stem 2 to 4 mm long. Attractive blue or violet flowers appear mostly from August to April.[3]

Hemigenia purpurea appears similar to certain plants of the genus Prostanthera; however, it is distinguished by the thin leaves.

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