Family: Rutaceae
Plant: A small erect shrub up to a little over 1m high.
Flowers: Pale pink star-shaped flowers with 5 petals and 10 stamens, 2.5cm diameter, solitary in leaf axils and not projecting beyond the leaves.
Flowering: August-November.
Fruit: Erect 5-lobed red brown to black cocci about 7mm long.
Leaves: Circular to broad elliptic or ovate up to 2cm long and 3-12mm wide with tapered tip and a keel on underside. The leaves are alternately arranged, have conspicuous oil glands and are aromatic.
Habitat: On rocky or sandy sites in sunny locations in dry sclerophyll forest and heathland.
Features: Aromatic leaves with prominent oil glands. Pink star-shaped flowers.
Name:
Philotheca From Greek philos = loving and theke = box (referring to its fused anther filaments).
buxifolia From Latin buxus = box tree and folius = leaf (referring to its leaves being similar to those of the European Buccus or Box).
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Type |
Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Regular, Single |
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Colour(s) |
Pink |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
5 |
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Flowering Month |
8, 9, 10, 11 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Other |
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Colour |
Red, Black |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Round, Oval |
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Length |
Short |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
Aromatic, Tapered-tip |
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Oil dots/glands, |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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