Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Philotheca ericifolia
Common name
A Waxflower
Family
Rutaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, heath, rocky areas, gullies, and moist places. Western Slopes, mostly round West Wyalong. Ranges and tablelands north of the area covered by this key.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high. Stems sparsely glandular-warty, hairy with fine hairs. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, needle-like, 0.4–0.8 cm long, about 0.5 mm wide, narrow-grooved above, sparsely glandular-warty, hairless or sparsely hairy with fine hairs, tips pointed to blunt. Flowers with 5 petals each about 9 mm long, white to pink. Stamens free from each other, the filaments usually hairy from the base, sometimes cohering by intertwined hairs. Flowers in 1–6 flowered clusters, stalkless or on stalks 2-5 mm long. Flowering: spring.
Vulnerable Australia. Protected NSW.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Philotheca~ericifolia (accessed 17 January, 2021)
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