Philotheca trachyphylla
(F.Muell.) Paul G.WislonShrub or small, spreading tree to c. 7 m high; branchlets glabrous, glandular-verrucose, lacking dark, stipule-like excrescences. Leaves oblong-elliptic to elliptic or narrow-obovate, 30–50 mm long, 5–9 mm wide, apex acute to rounded, shortly mucronate, slightly discolorous, margins slightly recurved and minutely crenate. Inflorescences axillary, 1–3-flowered, peduncle not apparent. Flowers 5-merous; sepals deltoid, c. 1 mm long; petals elliptic, 6–7 mm long, white, glabrous (but often papillose within), not persisting in fruit; anthers glandular beneath white apiculum; ovary glabrous, carpels united along their outer margin by a thin layer of pericarp. Follicles hardly beaked, at first united, appearing as a c. spherical capsule, splitting apart at maturity; seed flattened-ellipsoid, c. 3 mm long. Flowers Sep.–Nov.
GipP, EGL, EGU, HSF, HNF, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Also NSW. Occasional along rocky gullies or watercourses in lowland areas, but commonly forming dense scrubs on rocky hillsides in dry montane areas east from the Bruthen-Ensay area.
Bayly, M.J. (1999). Eriostemon. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 178–183. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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