Philotheca angustifolia
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| Narrow-leaf wax-flower | |
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| Philotheca angustifolia subsp. montana in the ANBG | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Rutaceae |
| Genus: | Philotheca |
| Species: | P. angustifolia |
| Binomial name | |
| Philotheca angustifolia (Paul G.Wilson) Paul G.Wilson[1] | |
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Philotheca angustifolia, commonly known as narrow-leaf wax flower,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a shrub with small leaves and white flowers with five egg-shaped petals in spring.
Philotheca angustifolia is a shrub that grows to a height of 0.3–2 m (1 ft 0 in – 6 ft 7 in) with its stems covered with warty glands and a few hairs in grooves between the leaf axils. The leaves are cylindrical to club-shaped or egg-shaped, sessile, glandular-warty, 2–10 mm (0.079–0.394 in) long and 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) wide. The flowers are borne singly or in groups of up to four on the ends of the branchlets, each flower on a pedicel 0.5–4 mm (0.020–0.157 in) long. There are five triangular sepals about 1 mm (0.039 in) long and five egg-shaped white petals 5–8 mm (0.20–0.31 in) long, usually with a pink midline. There are ten stamens each with a small white appendage on the anther, the stamens nearer the sepals with an awl-shaped tip.[2][3][4]