Philotheca scabra
{{short description|Species of plant}}
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|image = Philotheca scabra latifolia.jpg
|image_caption = Subspecies latifolia in the ANBG
|genus = Philotheca
|species = scabra
|authority = (Paxton) Paul G.Wilson{{cite web|title=Philotheca scabra|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/162043|publisher=Australian Plant Census|accessdate=13 August 2020}}
|synonyms =
- Eriostemon scaber Paxton
- Eriostemon scaber Gérard nom. illeg.
- Eriostemon scaber Paxton isonym
- Eriostemon scaber A.DC. nom. illeg.
- Eriostemon scabrum Paxton orth. var.
- Eriostemon scabrum Gérard orth. var.
- Eriostemon scabrum A.DC. orth. var.
}}
Philotheca scabra is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a small shrub with variably shaped leaves, depending on subspecies, and single white to pink flowers arranged on the ends of branchlets.
Description
Philotheca scabra is a shrub that grows to a height of {{cvt|0.6|m}} with more or less bristly stems. The leaves are sessile, {{cvt|10–15|mm}} long and either more or less cylindrical and folded lengthwise or narrow oblong-elliptic and concave on the lower side. The flowers are borne singly on the ends of branchlets on a peduncle {{cvt|0.5–2|mm}} long and a pedicel {{cvt|2–5|mm}} long with two pairs of tiny bracteoles at the base. There are five fleshy, semicircular sepals about {{cvt|1|mm}} long, five elliptical white to pink petals {{cvt|7–8|mm}} long and ten stamens. Flowering occurs in spring and the fruit is about {{cvt|7|mm}} long with a beak about {{cvt|3|mm}} long.{{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=395 |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Philotheca%20scabra |accessdate=13 August 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Weston |first1=Peter H. |last2=Harden |first2=Gwen J. |title=Philotheca scabra |url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Philotheca~scabra |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |accessdate=13 August 2020}}
Taxonomy
This philotheca was first formally described in 1844 by Joseph Paxton who gave it the name Eriostemon scaber and published the description in Paxton's Magazine of Botany from a specimen "in the nursery of Messrs. Henderson, of Pine Apple Place, who received it from the gardens of Baron Hugel, at Vienna, about twelve months back".{{cite web|title=Eriostemon scaber|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/648602|publisher=APNI|accessdate=13 August 2020}}{{cite journal |last1=Paxton |first1=Joseph |title=Floricultural Notices |journal=Paxton's Journal of Botany |date=1844 |volume=11 |page=190 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/187836#page/274/mode/1up |accessdate=13 August 2020}} In 1970, Paul G. Wilson described two subspecies of Eriostemon scaber in the journal Nuytsia:{{cite journal |last1=Wilson |first1=Paul G. |title=A taxonomic revision of the genera Crowea, Eriostemon and Phebalium (Rutaceae) |journal=Nuytsia |date=1970 |volume=1 |issue=1 |page=44|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/223300#page/50/mode/1up |accessdate=13 August 2020}}
- Eriostemon scaber subsp. latifolia (Paul G.Wilson) Paul G.Wilson that has glandular-warty stems and leaves about {{cvt|12|mm}} long and {{cvt|3|mm}} wide;
- Eriostemon scaber (Paul G.Wilson) Paul G.Wilson subsp. scaber that has smooth stems and more or less cylindrical leaves.
In 1998, Wilson changed the species name to Philotheca scabra and the subspecies to P. scabra subsp. latifolia and P. scabra subsp. scabra respectively, in a later edition of the same journal:{{cite journal |last1=Wilson |first1=Paul G. |title=A Taxonomic Review of the genera Eriostemon and Philotheca |journal=Nuytsia |date=1998 |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=259–260 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/226456#page/105/mode/1up |accessdate=13 August 2020}} The names of the subspecies are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:
- Philotheca scabra subsp. latifolia (Paul G.Wilson) Paul G.Wilson;{{cite web|title=Philotheca scabra subsp. latifolia|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/162045|publisher=Australian Plant Census|accessdate=13 August 2020}}
- Philotheca scabra (Paul G.Wilson) Paul G.Wilson subsp. scabra.{{cite web|title=Philotheca scabra subsp. scabra|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/162044|publisher=Australian Plant Census|accessdate=13 August 2020}}
Distribution and habitat
References
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Category:Flora of New South Wales
Category:Sapindales of Australia