Philotheca obovatifolia (Bayly) P.I.Forst.

Subshrub to 1 m high, glabrous except for flowers. Branchlets sparsely glandular-verrucose. Leaves densely clustered near stem apices, broadly obovate, 28–60 mm long, 14–30 mm wide, ±flat, obtuse to slightly retuse, shortly mucronate. Flowers solitary or in clusters of  2–5; peduncle conspicuous, to 10 mm long; pedicels 5–9 mm long, sparsely glandular-verrucose. Sepals broadly deltate. Petals elliptic-oblong, 8–9 mm long, 3.5–4 mm wide, cream tinged with pink, papillose adaxially, abaxially glabrous with verrucose glands towards apex. Staminal filaments ciliate for entire length with scattered longer hairs at apex. Fruit not seen.

Growing in heath or woodland on rhyolite.