Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Philotheca virgata
Common name
Tasmanian waxflower
Family
Rutaceae
Where found
Forest, heath, and rocky areas. Coast and ranges south from Pambula.
Notes
Shrub to about 4 m high. Young stems bluntly triangular in cross section, becoming cylindrical, thin-textured, hairless, dotted with many oil glands, sparsely to densely warty. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 1–2 cm long, 2–4 mm wide, tips blunt to rounded or squared off, mucronate, margins more or less curved down, surfaces hairless, upper surface dotted with glands, lower surface smooth to slightly glandular-warty. Flowers white or pale pink, with 4 (rarely 5) petals each about 5.5 mm long. Stamens free from each other, the filaments usually hairy from the base, sometimes cohering by intertwined hairs. Flowers single. Flowers May–Dec.
Protected NSW.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Philotheca~virgata (accessed 25 January, 2021)
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