Philotheca rhomboidea (Paul G.wilson) Paul G.wilson

Shrub to 1 m high. Branchlets sparsely glandular, glabrous, without decurrent leaf bases, grey when young, corky excrescences forming with age. Leaves thick, broadly elliptic to obovate or orbicular, 2–4 mm long, undulate marginally, rounded at apex, glabrous, with 2 or 3 glandular warts abaxially. Stipules absent. Flowers terminal, solitary or 2 or 3 together; pedicels 2–3 mm long, glabrous. Sepals deltate, 1–1.5 mm long, thick, glabrous. Petals ovate, c. 5 mm long, white to pale pink, glabrous, with prominent midrib. Stamens free; filaments linear-attenuate, woolly-pilose towards apex; anthers c. 1 mm long, minutely white-apiculate, with a medial reddish zone abaxially. Style glabrous. Cocci c. 2.5 mm high, outwardly apiculate.

Grows in shrubland on yellow sand and gravel, often in association with granite or laterite.