Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Philotheca trachyphylla
Common name
Rock waxflower
Family
Rutaceae
Where found
Forest, shrubland, rocky areas, and moist gullies. Coast and ranges mainly south of Wollongong.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 7 m high. Branchlets cylindrical, warty, more or less glaucous, hairless. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, usually 3–5 cm long, 5–9 mm wide, tips pointed to rounded, with a short mucro, margins wrinkled due to small warts, surfaces hairless. Flowers white, with 5 petals each 6–7 mm long. Stamens free from each other, the filaments usually hairy from the base, sometimes cohering by intertwined hairs. Flowers in clusters of 1-3. Flowering: chiefly spring.
Protected NSW.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Philotheca~trachyphylla (accessed 17 January, 2021)
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