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Philotheca

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Photo: Toby Hudson, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Rutaceae (Citrus family)

About

Philotheca is a genus of about fifty species of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae. Plants in this genus are shrubs with simple leaves arranged alternately along the stems, flowers that usually have five sepals, five petals and ten stamens that curve inwards over the ovary. All species are endemic to Australia and there are species in every state, but not the Northern Territory.

Where it grows

Plants in the genus Philotheca are found in every state of Australia, but not in the Northern Territory.

Other Philotheca plants

Philotheca pungens · Philotheca trachyphylla · Philotheca acrolopha · Narrow Leaf Wax Flower · Philotheca apiculata · Philotheca basistyla · Philotheca brevifolia · Philotheca brucei · Philotheca buxifolia · Philotheca ciliata · Philotheca citrina · Philotheca coateana

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Philotheca by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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