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Philotheca linearis

Philotheca linearis
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Rutaceae (Citrus family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SE. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Philotheca linearis, commonly known as the rock wallaby shrub or narrow-leaf wax-flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to an inland areas of southern Australia. It is a shrub with glandular-warty branchlets and leaves, club-shaped to cylindrical leaves and white flowers arranged singly in leaf axils.

Where it grows

Philotheca linearis on and around rock outcrops from the Great Victoria Desert in Western Australia and east to the Everard, Gawler and Flinders Ranges in South Australia and the Cobar – Bourke – Broken Hill area of New South Wales.

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 linearis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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