Philotheca apiculata
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| Philotheca apiculata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Rutaceae |
| Genus: | Philotheca |
| Species: | P. apiculata |
| Binomial name | |
| Philotheca apiculata (Paul G.Wilson) Paul G.Wilson[1] | |
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Philotheca apiculata is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a small shrub with narrow club-shaped leaves and small clusters of white to pink flowers on the ends of branchlets.
Philotheca apiculata is a shrub that grows to a height of 1 m (3 ft 3 in) with stems that develop a wax-like substance. The leaves are narrow club-shaped, 4–8 mm (0.16–0.31 in) long with warty glands and ending with a black point. The flowers are borne singly or in groups of up to two to four on the ends of the branchlets, each flower on a pedicel 0.5–1.5 mm (0.020–0.059 in) long. There are five triangular sepals about 2 mm (0.079 in) long and five oblong white to pink petals about 6 mm (0.24 in) long. There are ten stamens each that are free from each other and reddish near the tip. Flowering occurs from July to September and the fruit is 1.5–2 mm (0.059–0.079 in) long and beaked.[2][3]