Philotheca conduplicata
{{short description|Species of plant}}
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|image = Philotheca conduplicata.jpg
|image_caption = In the ANBG
|genus = Philotheca
|species = conduplicata
|authority = (Paul G.Wilson) P.I.Forst.{{cite web|title=Philotheca conduplicata|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/198134|publisher=Australian Plant Census|accessdate=1 August 2020}}
|synonyms =
- Eriostemon myoporoides subsp. conduplicatus Paul G.Wilson
- Philotheca myoporoides subsp. conduplicata (Paul G.Wilson) Bayly
}}
Philotheca conduplicata is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with elliptical leaves clustered near the ends of the branchlets and white flowers arranged singly or in two or threes on the ends of the branchlets.
Description
Philotheca conduplicata is a shrub that grows to a height of about {{cvt|2|m}} and has smooth branchlets. The leaves are more or less clustered near the ends of the branchlets and are elliptical, slightly curved, {{cvt|40–70|mm}} long and {{cvt|4–14|mm}} wide and folded lengthwise. The flowers are borne singly or in twos or threes on the ends of the branchlets on a thick peduncle about {{cvt|4|mm}} long, each flower on a thick pedicel {{cvt|2–4|mm}} long. There are five broadly triangular sepals with a fleshy centre and five elliptical to lance-shaped white petals about {{cvt|6–11|mm}} long and {{cvt|2.5–3.5|mm}} wide. The ten stamens are moderately hairy. Flowering occurs from July to September and the fruit is {{cvt|6–9|mm}} long and beaked.{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Paul G. |editor-last=Wilson |editor-first=Annette J.G. |title=Flora of Australia (Volume 26) |date=2013 |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study |location=Canberra |page=393 |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Philotheca%20conduplicata |accessdate=1 August 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Herscovitch |first1=Clare |title=Philotheca conduplicata |url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Philotheca~conduplicata |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |accessdate=1 August 2020}}
Taxonomy and naming
This species was first formally described in 1970 by Paul G. Wilson who gave it the name Eriostemon myoporoides subsp. conduplicatus and published the description in the journal Nuytsia, from specimens collected by Joseph Maiden and Ernst Betche near Howell (north of Bundarra in 1905.{{cite journal |last1=Wilson |first1=Paul G. |title=A taxonomic review of the genera Crowea, Eriostemon and Phebalium (Rutaceae) |journal=Nuytsia |date=1970 |volume=1 |issue=1 |page=41 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/223300#page/47/mode/1up |accessdate=1 August 2020}}{{cite web|title=Eriostemon myoporoides subsp. conduplicatus|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/499088|publisher=APNI|accessdate=1 August 2020}} In 2005 Paul Irwin Forster raised the subspecies to species status as Philotheca conduplicata in the journal Austrobaileya.{{cite web|title=Philotheca conduplicata|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/601942|publisher=APNI|accessdate=1 August 2020}}
Distribution and habitat
Philotheca conduplicata grows among granite boulders in the Granite Belt in northern New South Wales and south-eastern Queensland.
References
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Category:Flora of New South Wales
Category:Sapindales of Australia