Philotheca hispidula
Species of plant
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Philotheca hispidula is a flowering plant in the citrus family and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a small shrub with narrow egg-shaped to wedge-shaped leaves that are glandular-wavy on the edges, and white or pale pink flowers arranged singly in leaf axils.
| Philotheca hispidula | |
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| In Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Rutaceae |
| Genus: | Philotheca |
| Species: | P. hispidula |
| Binomial name | |
| Philotheca hispidula | |
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Description
Philotheca hispidula is a shrub that typically grows to a height of about 1 m (3 ft 3 in) with slightly glandular-warty, finely bristly branchlets. The leaves are narrow egg-shaped to narrow wedge-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 10–20 mm (0.39–0.79 in) long and 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) wide. The flowers are usually arranged singly in leaf axils on a finely bristly peduncle 1–15 mm (0.039–0.591 in) long and a pedicel 3–5 mm (0.12–0.20 in) long. There are five semi-circular, fleshy-centred sepals about 1 mm (0.039 in) long and five broadly elliptical white or pale pink petals about 6.5 mm (0.26 in) long with a glandular keel. The ten stamens are slightly hairy. Flowering occurs in spring and the fruit is about 7 mm (0.28 in) long with a beak about 3 mm (0.12 in) long.[2][3][4]
Taxonomy
This species was first formally described in 1827 by Sprengel from an unpublished description by Franz Sieber and the description was published in Systema Vegetabilium.[5] In 2005 Paul G. Wilson changed the name to Philotheca hispidula in the journal Nuytsia.[6][7]
Distribution and habitat
Philotheca hispidula grows in forest on sandstone in the Blue Mountains and in the Sydney region.[2][3]