Common name: Tasmanian Wax-flower, Tasmanian Waxflower
Philotheca virgata (Hook.f.) Paul G.Wilson APNI* Synonyms: Eriostemon virgatus Hook.f. APNI*
Description: Slender shrub; young stems bluntly triangular, becoming terete, sparsely to densely warty, glabrous.
Leaves obcuneate to elliptic or obovate, 10–20 mm long, 2–4 mm wide, apex obtuse to rounded or truncate, mucronate, margins ± recurved, glabrous, upper surface glandular-punctate, lower surface smooth to slightly glandular-warty; sessile.
Flowers solitary, axillary at the tips of the stems, 4-merous; pedicels 4–6 mm long. Petals broad-elliptic, c. 5.5 mm long, white or pale pink, minutely and sparsely glandular.
Cocci slightly spreading, c. 5 mm long, apex rounded to truncate, shortly beaked.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in heath on sandstone; south from the Eden district.
NSW subdivisions: SC
Other Australian states: Vic. Tas.
Text by P.H. Weston & G.J.Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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