Philotheca virgata

Slender shrub to c. 4 m high; branchlets glabrous, with many oil glands, lacking dark, stipule-like excrescences. Leaves obcuneate to elliptic or obovate, 10–20 mm long, 2–4 mm wide, shortly mucronate, thin-textured, slightly discolorous, dotted with many small oil glands, margins slightly recurved and glandular-crenate. Inflorescences axillary; pedicels solitary, without an obvious peduncle. Flowers 4(–5)-merous; sepals c. orbicular, c. 1 mm long; petals broad-elliptic, c. 5.5 mm long, white or pale pink, glabrous (but often papillose within), not persisting in fruit; anthers glandular beneath white apiculum; ovary glabrous, carpels free for most of their length. Follicles shortly beaked, c. 5 mm long; seed flattened-ellipsoid, c. 3 mm long. Flowers May–Dec.