Philotheca glasshousiensis (Domin) P.I.Forst.

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Rutaceae > Philotheca

Characteristics

Shrub to 1 m high, glabrous except for flowers. Branchlets ±densely glandular-verrucose. Leaves densely clustered near stem apices, oblanceolate to oblong-obcuneate, 20–52 mm long, 5–11 mm wide, ±flat, rounded to truncate, abruptly apiculate. Flowers solitary or in clusters of 2–5; peduncle to 5 mm long; pedicels 4–12 mm long, sparsely glandular-verrucose. Sepals semiorbicular. Petals elliptic-oblong, 6–8.5 mm long, 2.5–3 mm wide, cream-coloured, papillose adaxially, abaxially glabrous with scattered glands towards apex. Stamens: filaments woolly-ciliate for entire length but becoming densely long-pilose at apex; anthers shortly white-apiculate. Cocci erect, 7–11 mm long, prominently rostrate.
Life form perennial
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Growing on rocky outcrops of sandstone, trachyte and rhyolite. 
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Distribution

Philotheca glasshousiensis world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60442387-2
WFO ID wfo-0000476874
COL ID 4GDD7
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Synonyms

Eriostemon glasshousiensis Eriostemon myoporoides subsp. leichhardtii Eriostemon trachyphyllus var. leichhardtii Philotheca glasshousiensis