Philotheca myoporoides subsp. myoporoides
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| Long-leaf wax-flower | |
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| In the Australian National Botanic Gardens | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Rutaceae |
| Genus: | Philotheca |
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| Subspecies: | P. m. subsp. myoporoides |
| Trinomial name | |
| Philotheca myoporoides subsp. myoporoides | |
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Philotheca myoporoides subsp. myoporoides, commonly known as long-leaf wax flower,[2] is a subspecies of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a shrub with oblong to elliptic or egg-shaped leaves and white or pink flowers arranged in groups of three to eight in leaf axils.
Philotheca myoporoides subsp. myoporoides is a shrub, sometimes a small tree, that typically grows to a height of 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) with glabrous, slightly to moderately glandular-warty stems. The leaves are variable in shape, oblong to elliptic or broadly elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 20–110 mm (0.79–4.33 in) long, 6–22 mm (0.24–0.87 in) wide and glandular-warty with a prominent midrib. The flowers are mostly arranged in groups of three to eight in leaf axils on a peduncle 0.5–20 mm (0.020–0.787 in) long, each flower on a pedicel 4–10 mm (0.16–0.39 in) long. The petals are broadly elliptic, white to pink and about 8 mm (0.31 in) long and the stamens are free from each other and hairy. Flowering occurs from July to January and the fruit is about 7 mm (0.28 in) long with a beak about 3 mm (0.12 in) long.[2][3][4]