Philotheca verrucosa (A.Rich.) Paul G.wilson

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Rutaceae > Philotheca

Characteristics

Shrub 0.3–0.6 (–2.5) m high. Branchlets terete, prominently glandular-verrucose, glabrous. Leaves sessile, thick, narrowly to broadly obcordate or obovate, 6–15 mm long, 4–7 mm wide, ±flat to conduplicate, coriaceous, smooth adaxially, glandular-verrucose abaxially, glabrous, blue-green. Flowers mostly solitary; peduncle 0.5–2 mm long, glabrous; pedicel 1–4 mm long, glabrous. Sepals semiorbicular, 1 mm long, fleshy with thin margins, glabrous. Petals elliptic, c. 6 mm long, white (pink in bud), glabrous. Stamens: filaments narrowly oblong, attenuate, ciliate; anthers orbicular-cordate, c. 1 mm long, minutely white-apiculate. Style glabrous. Cocci somewhat spreading, shortly to prominently rostrate.
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Growth form shrub
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Growing on rocky hills in open forest or woodland, also in sand in heathland in the Little Desert of Victoria. 
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-11

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Images

Philotheca verrucosa unspecified picture

Distribution

Philotheca verrucosa world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1003723-1
WFO ID wfo-0001263499
COL ID 76YY7
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Synonyms

Eriostemon dolabratus Eriostemon verrucosus Philotheca verrucosa Eriostemon obcordatus