Philotheca linearis
Philotheca linearis, commonly known as the rock wallaby shrub or narrow-leaf wax-flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to an inland areas of southern Australia. It is a shrub with glandular-warty branchlets and leaves, club-shaped to cylindrical leaves and white flowers arranged singly in leaf axils. Description Philotheca linearis is a shrub that grows to a height of with warty glands on the branchlets. The leaves are also glandular-warty, club-shaped to cylindrical, long and channelled on the upper surface. The flowers are borne singly in leaf axils, each flower on a pedicel long. There are five broadly egg-shaped sepals about long and five elliptical white petals long. The ten stamens are free from each other and hairy. Flowering mainly occurs in spring and the fruit is about long and prominently beaked. Taxonomy This philotheca was first formally described in 1837 by Stephan Endlicher from an unpublished description by Allan Cunningham who gave it the name Eriostemon linearis. Endlicher published the description in the Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus Liber Baro de Hügel. The type specimens were collected by Cunningham on