Flora of Victoria

Shrub to c. 50 cm high; branchlets with dark, stipule-like excrescences and large oil glands, with hairs in narrow grooves between leaf decurrencies. Leaves c. terete, or obovate and flat or concave. Inflorescences terminal, 1–4-flowered, each pedicel without an obvious peduncle. Flowers 5-merous; sepals c. deltoid, c. 1 mm long; petals ovate, 5–8 mm long, white, usually with pink midrib, minutely pilose to glabrous inside, glabrous outside, persisting in fruit; anthers not glandular beneath white apiculum; ovary pilose in upper half, carpels free for most of their length. Follicles shortly beaked, c. 3 mm long; seed subreniform, c. 2.5 mm long.

CVU, DunT, Gold, GGr, LoM, MuM, VRiv, Wim.

2 subspecies, both in Victoria.

Source: Bayly, M.J. (1999). Eriostemon. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J. (eds), Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae. Inkata Press, Melbourne (as Eriostemon angustifolius Paul G.Wilson).

Key to the subspecies of Philotheca angustifolia

life Life

kingdom Plantae

phylum Tracheophyta

class Magnoliopsida

superorder Rosanae

order Sapindales

family Rutaceae

genus Philotheca

Higher taxa

species Philotheca angustifolia (Paul G.Wilson) Paul G.Wilson

Subordinate taxa

subspecies Philotheca angustifolia subsp. angustifolia

subspecies Philotheca angustifolia subsp. montana (Paul G.Wilson) Paul G.Wilson

Synonyms

Eriostemon angustifolius Paul G.Wilson

Victoria

**Source:** AVH (2014). *Australia's Virtual Herbarium*, Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria, <http://avh.chah.org.au>. Find Philotheca angustifolia in AVH ; *Victorian Biodiversity Atlas*, © The State of Victoria, Department of Environment and Primary Industries (published Dec. 2014) Find Philotheca angustifolia in Victorian Biodiversity Atlas

Bioregion	Occurrence status	Establishment means
Lowan Mallee	present	native
Murray Mallee	present	native
Wimmera	present	native
Victorian Riverina	present	native
Goldfields	present	native
Central Victorian Uplands	present	native
Greater Grampians	present	native
Dundas Tablelands	present	native

Bioregions of Victoria

State distribution

State
South Australia
Queensland
New South Wales
Victoria