Philotheca myoporoides
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Long-leaf wax-flower
| image = Philotheca myoporoides myoporoides.jpg
| image_caption = Subspecies myoporoides in the ANBG
| genus = Philotheca
| species = myoporoides
| authority = (DC.) Bayly{{cite web|title=Philotheca myoporoides|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/143833|publisher=Australian Plant Census|accessdate=6 August 2020}}
|synonyms = Eriostemon myoporoides DC.
}}
File:Philotheca myoporoides myoporoides habit.jpgFile:Philotheca myoporoides acuta.jpgFile:Philotheca myoporoides brevipedunculata.jpg
Philotheca myoporoides, commonly known as long-leaf wax flower,{{cite web |last1=Weston |first1=Peter H. |last2=Harden |first2=Gwen J. |title=Philotheca myoporoides |url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Philotheca~myoporoides |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |accessdate=6 August 2020}} is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a shrub with sessile, oblong to egg-shaped, glandular-warty leaves and white to pink flowers arranged singly in leaf axils. Prior to 1998 it was known as Eriostemon myoporoides.
Description
Philotheca myoporoides is a species of shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|2|m}}. The leaves are sessile, oblong to broadly egg-shaped, glandular-warty, papery to leathery, {{cvt|15–110|mm}} long and {{cvt|4–20|mm}} wide with a prominent midrib. The flowers are arranged singly or in groups of up to eight, in leaf axils on a peduncle up to {{cvt|20|mm}} long, each flower on a pedicel {{cvt|1–10|mm}} long. The sepals are broadly triangular, about {{cvt|1|mm}} long and {{cvt|1.5–2|mm}} wide and the petals are white to pink, about {{cvt|8|mm}} long with a prominent keel. Flowering mainly occurs in spring and autumn and the fruit is about {{cvt|7|mm}} long with a beak about {{cvt|3|mm}} long.{{cite web |last1=Walsh |first1=Neville |last2=Stajsic |first2=Val |title=Eriostemon myoporoides |url=https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/816cab05-206e-4c74-84d8-fc60162f633f |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria |accessdate=6 August 2020}}{{cite web |title=Philotheca myoporoides |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Philotheca%20myoporoides |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment |accessdate=6 August 2020}}
Taxonomy
This species was first formally described in 1824 by Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle who gave it the name Eriostemon myoporoides in his book Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.{{cite web|title=Eriostemon myoporoides|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/498980|publisher=APNI|accessdate=6 August 2020}}{{cite book |last1=de Candolle |first1=Augustin Pyramus |title=Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (Volume 1) |date=1824 |publisher=Sumptibus Sociorum Treuttel et Würtz |location=Paris |page=720 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/7150#page/727/mode/1up |accessdate=6 August 2020}} In 1998 Michael James Bayly changed the name to Philotheca myoporoides in the journal Muelleria.{{cite web|title=Philotheca myoporoides|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/560317|publisher=APNI|accessdate=6 August 2020}}{{cite journal |last1=Bayly |first1=Michael J. |title=Notes on the Eriostemon myoporoides (Rutaceae) species complex, including new names and a new generic placement in Philotheca |journal=Muelleria |date=1998 |volume=11 |pages=113–126 |doi=10.5962/p.198412 |s2cid=198259008 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51253590#page/117/mode/1up |accessdate=6 August 2020|doi-access=free }}
In the same journal, Bayly described nine subspecies, four of which are accepted by the Australian Plant Census, and in 2001, Andrew Rozefelds described a fifth subspecies:{{cite journal |last1=Rozefelds |first1=Andrew C.F. |title=Notes on the Philotheca myoporoides complex (Rutaceae) in Victoria. |journal=Muelleria |date=2001 |volume=15 |pages=14–17 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/207394#page/16/mode/1up |accessdate=7 August 2020}}
- Philotheca myoporoides subsp. acuta (Blakely) Bayly{{cite web|title=Philotheca myoporoides subsp. acuta|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/161039|publisher=Australian Plant Census|accessdate=6 August 2020}} has oblong-elliptic or egg-shaped leaves {{cvt|13–30|mm}} long and {{cvt|5–10|mm}} wide;
- Philotheca myoporoides subsp. brevipedunculata Bayly{{cite web|title=Philotheca myoporoides subsp. brevipedunculata|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/162400|publisher=Australian Plant Census|accessdate=6 August 2020}} has oblong, elliptic or lance-shaped leaves {{cvt|40–45|mm}} long and {{cvt|2–8|mm}} wide;
- Philotheca myoporoides subsp. euroensis Bayly{{cite web|title=Philotheca myoporoides subsp. euroensis|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/165603|publisher=Australian Plant Census|accessdate=7 August 2020}} has broad elliptic leaves {{cvt|15–35|mm}} long and {{cvt|6–12|mm}} wide;
- Philotheca myoporoides (DC.) Bayly subsp. myoporoides {{cite web|title=Philotheca myoporoides subsp. myoporoides|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/162199|publisher=Australian Plant Census|accessdate=6 August 2020}} has oblong-elliptic or lance-shaped leaves {{cvt|20–50|mm}} long and {{cvt|4–10|mm}} wide;
- Philotheca myoporoides subsp. petraea Rozefelds{{cite web|title=Philotheca myoporoides subsp. petraeus|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/178897|publisher=Australian Plant Census|accessdate=6 August 2020}} has leaves {{cvt|8–16|mm}} long and {{cvt|4–7|mm}} wide.
Distribution and habitat
Subspecies acuta grows on rocky sandstone hills from Lockhart to near Cobar.{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Paul G. |editor-last1=Wilson |editor-first1=Annette J.G. |title=Flora of Australia (Volume 26) |date=2013 |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study |location=Canberra |page=392 |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Philotheca%20myoporoides%20subsp.%20acuta |accessdate=7 August 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Herscovitch |first1=Clare |title=Philotheca myoporoides subsp. acuta (Blakely) Bayly |url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=in&name=Philotheca~myoporoides~subsp.+acuta |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |accessdate=7 August 2020}} Subspecies brevipedunculata is found coastal areas to mountain summits between Sassafras and Moruya in south-eastern New South Wales.{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Paul G. |editor-last1=Wilson |editor-first1=Annette J.G. |title=Flora of Australia (Volume 26) |date=2013 |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study |location=Canberra |page=392 |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Philotheca%20myoporoides%20subsp.%20brevipedunculata |accessdate=7 August 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Walsh |first1=Neville |title=Philotheca myoporoides subsp. brevipedunculata |url=https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/1bbdc68b-5070-4658-bcd9-c28d4e279144 |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria |accessdate=7 August 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Herscovitch |first1=Clare |title=Philotheca myoporoides subsp. brevipedunculata Bayly |url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=in&name=Philotheca~myoporoides~subsp.+brevipedunculata |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |accessdate=7 August 2020}} Subspecies euroensis grows among granite boulders on the Strathbogie Ranges near Euroa in north-eastern Victoria.{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Paul G. |editor-last1=Wilson |editor-first1=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%20myoporoides%20subsp.%20euroensis |accessdate=7 August 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Walsh |first1=Neville |title=Philotheca myoporoides subsp. euroensis |url=https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/9fece315-6a30-4b97-b814-dad5881ad676 |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria |accessdate=7 August 2020}} Subspecies myoporoides grows in forest and heathland, usually near watercourses, mostly along the Great Dividing Range from the northern border of New South Wales to near Healesville in Victoria.{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Paul G. |editor-last1=Wilson |editor-first1=Annette J.G. |title=Flora of Australia (Volume 26) |date=2013 |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study |location=Canberra |pages=391–392 |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Philotheca%20myoporoides%20subsp.%20myoporoides |accessdate=7 August 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Bayly |first1=Michael J. |last2=Stajsic |first2=Val |title=Philotheca myoporoides subsp. myoporoides |url=https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/71659dcd-363f-4538-8575-2d7623fce82a |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria |accessdate=7 August 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Herscovitch |first1=Clare |title= Philotheca myoporoides (DC.) Bayly subsp. myoporoides |url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=in&name=Philotheca~myoporoides~subsp.+myoporoides |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |accessdate=7 August 2020}} Subspecies petraea is only known from rocky areas on Mount Stewart, west of Gelantipy in north-eastern Victoria.{{cite web |last1=Walsh |first1=Neville |last2=Stajsic |first2=Val |title=Philotheca myoporoides subsp. petraea |url=https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/3ed4237d-d197-4c0c-b972-4161b4123945 |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria |accessdate=7 August 2020}}
Ecology
Use in horticulture
The species is well adapted to cultivation, and plants are commercially available at nurseries in Australia.{{cite web|author=Beeton, Irene|title=Philotheca myoporoides (synonym Eriostemon myoporoides)|publisher=Australian National Botanic Gardens|work=Growing Native Plants|url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/gnp/gnp1/philotheca-myoporoides.html|accessdate=7 August 2011}}
The species prefers a well-drained position in light shade. Established plants tolerate both dry periods and moderate frost. Plants may be propagated from semi-mature cuttings, though some forms are slow to take root.{{cite web|title=Philotheca myoporoides|publisher=Australian Native Plants Society (Australia)|url=https://anpsa.org.au/plant_profiles/philotheca-myoporoides/|accessdate=8 April 2023}}
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Category:Flora of New South Wales
Category:Flora of Victoria (state)
Category:Sapindales of Australia