About Philotheca virgata (Hook.fil.) Paul G.Wilson
Philotheca virgata is a slender, erect shrub that typically reaches 1 to 2 meters (3 feet 3 inches to 6 feet 7 inches) in height. It has prominently glandular, warty branchlets. Its leaves are sessile, ranging from narrow wedge-shaped to egg-shaped with the narrower end at the base. Leaves measure 10 to 20 millimeters (0.39 to 0.79 inches) long and 2 to 4 millimeters (0.079 to 0.157 inches) wide, and are glandular and warty on the upper surface. Flowers grow singly on the ends of branchlets, attached to a thin pedicel 4 to 6 millimeters (0.16 to 0.24 inches) long. The four sepals are more or less round, fleshy, and about 1 millimeter (0.039 inches) long. The four petals are white or pale pink, broadly elliptic, and about 5.5 millimeters (0.22 inches) long. The eight stamens are about 8 millimeters (0.31 inches) long and covered in hairs. Flowering takes place from May to December. The fruit is about 5 millimeters (0.20 inches) long and has a short beak. This species grows in heathland and forest in coastal areas of southern and western Tasmania, south of Eden in New South Wales, and the extreme northeast of Victoria.
