Philotheca reichenbachii Sieber ex Spreng. APNI* Synonyms: Philotheca reichenbachiana Sieber ex Reichenbach APNI*
Description: Erect heath-like shrub, 0.5–2 m high, hispid.
Leaves crowded, linear or ± terete, 1–2 cm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, thick, apex acute, surfaces prominently glandular-punctate, hispid to ± glabrous.
Flowers solitary or 2 or 3 together. Sepals broad-triangular, 1–1.5 mm long. Petals lanceolate, 10–15 mm long, pink to purple, darker below along the midline, both surfaces hoary-pubescent except for the broad glabrous midline. Stamens with filaments fused in basal half; filaments densely hairy with upwardly appressed long hairs covering the anthers; anthers with an apical tuft of long hairs.
Cocci oblong, compressed, 5–6 mm long, apiculate.
Flowering: Flowers September–December
Distribution and occurrence: In heath on rocky or sandy sites, confined to the Sydney area.
NSW subdivisions: CC
Text by P.H. Weston & G.J.Harden
Taxon concept: Paul G. Wilson (1998)
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