Common name: Desert Phebalium
Phebalium glandulosum Hook. APNI* 
Description: Erect shrub 0.5–2.5 m high; stems terete, glandular-warty, with silvery to rusty scales.
Leaves cuneate to linear-cuneate, 0.3–3 cm long, 1–5 mm wide, margins ± glandular-undulate, upper surface ± rounded, lower surface scaly.
Umbels terminal, sessile or shortly pedunculate; pedicels 2–5 mm long. Calyx glandular-warty, scaly. Petals c. 3 mm long, pale to bright yellow.
Cocci erect, 3–4 mm long, outer angle minutely apiculate.
Flowering: spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Widespread in heath, sclerophyll forest and mallee. Grows in heath, in crevices of trachyte, confined to exposed higher sites.
NSW subdivisions: NT, ST, NWS, CWS, NWP, SWP
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. S.A.
Text by P.H. Weston & G.J. Harden
Taxon concept:
Taxa not yet included in identification key
Phebalium glandulosum subsp. macrocalyx
| | Key to the subspecies | |
| 1 | Leaves 0.3–1.5 cm long, 1–2 mm wide, ± narrowly oblong-cuneate, apex truncate to retuse or obcordate, often appearing apically lobed. | 2 |
| Leaves 1–3 cm long, 2–5 mm wide, narrow-oblong to narrowly oblong-cuneate, apex truncate and slightly retuse, apex not appearing lobed. | 4 |
| 2 | Leaves with midvein strongly impressed above. | 3 |
| Leaves without midvein impressed on upper surface. Leaves narrowly oblong-cuneate, c. 0.5 cm long, 1–2 mm wide, apex truncate and retuse, margins revolute, upper surface smooth, sparsely glandular-warty. Pedicels 2–4 mm long. Calyx shortly hemispherical, with rusty scales, teeth broad-triangular, very obtuse, c. 0.8 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, margin with broad, triangular lobes. Petals broad-elliptic, c. 3 mm long.
Back to 1 | subsp. eglandulosum |
| 3 | Leaves narrowly oblong-cuneate, c. 2 mm wide at apex; calyx obturbinate to deeply hemispherical. Leaves narrowly oblong-cuneate, 0.3–1.5 cm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, apex truncate to retuse or obcordate, margins recurved to revolute; upper surface prominently glandular-warty, stellate when young. Pedicels 2–3 mm long. Calyx 0.8–1.5 mm long, 2–2.5 mm wide, margin undulate or with prominent triangular acuminate teeth. Petals to 3 mm long, broad-elliptic. | subsp. glandulosum |
| Leaves linear-cuneate, c. 1 mm wide at apex; calyx shortly hemispherical. Leaves linear-cuneate, 0.5–0.8 cm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, apex truncate and retuse, margins slightly recurved, upper surface prominently glandular-warty. Pedicels 4–5 mm long. Calyx c. 1 mm long, 2 mm wide, margin undulate. Petals 1–2 mm long, elliptic.
Back to 2 | subsp. angustifolium |
| 4 | Leaves with upper surface dull and midvein sharply depressed; confined to the Bourke district (NWP). Leaves 1–3 cm long, c. 3 mm wide. | subsp. glandulosum |
| Leaves with upper surface glossy and midvein only slightly depressed; restricted to the Warrumbungle N.P. (NWS). Leaves narrow-oblong to narrowly oblong-elliptic, 1–3 cm long, 2–4 mm wide, margins crenate and glandular-warty, apex truncate and slightly retuse; upper surface convex with shallow depression over midrib, glossy, smooth or sparsely glandular-warty; lower surface smooth apart from the sparsely warty midrib, fawn-scaly. Pedicels 5–7 mm long. Calyx c. 2 mm long, margin with prominent triangular lobes. Petals 3–4 mm long, broad-elliptic.
Back to 1 | subsp. nitidum |
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