Philotheca reichenbachii


Philotheca reichenbachii is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a shrub with upright branchlets, crowded, linear or cylindrical leaves and pink to purple flowers arranged singly or in twos or threes on the ends of branchlets.

Description

Philotheca reichenbachii is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has upright branchlets covered with stiff hairs. The leaves are crowded near the ends of branchlets, linear or more or less cylindrical, glandular-warty, long and wide. The flowers are arranged singly or in twos or threes on the ends of branchlets and have broadly triangular sepals long. The petals are pink to purple, lance-shaped, long and the stamens are densely hairy and joined along their lower half. Flowering occurs from August to December and the fruit is oblong, long.

Taxonomy

Philotheca reichenbachii was first formally described in 1827 by Sprengel from an unpublished description by Franz Sieber and the description was published in the 17th edition of Systema Vegetabilium.

Distribution and habitat

This philotheca grows in heath in rocky or sandy sites in the Sydney region.