Philotheca scabra
Philotheca scabra is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a small shrub with variably shaped leaves, depending on subspecies, and single white to pink flowers arranged on the ends of branchlets. Description. "Philotheca scabra" is a shrub that grows to a height of with more or less bristly stems. The leaves are sessile, long and either more or less cylindrical and folded lengthwise or narrow oblong-elliptic and concave on the lower side. The flowers are borne singly on the ends of branchlets on a peduncle  long and a pedicel long with two pairs of tiny bracteoles at the base. There are five fleshy, semicircular sepals about long, five elliptical white to pink petals long and ten stamens. Flowering occurs in spring and the fruit is about long with a beak about long. Taxonomy. This philotheca was first formally described in 1844 by Joseph Paxton who gave it the name "Eriostemon scaber" and published the description in "Paxton's Magazine of Botany" from a specimen "in the nursery of Messrs. Henderson, of Pine Apple Place, who received it from the gardens of Baron Hugel, at Vienna , about twelve months back". In 1970, Paul G. Wilson described two subspecies of "Eriostemon scaber" in the journal "Nuytsia": In 1998, Wilson changed the species name to "Philotheca scabra" and the subspecies to "P. scabra" subsp. "latifolia" and "P. scabra" subsp. "scabra" respectively, in a later edition of the same journal: The names of the subspecies are accepted by the Australian Plant Census: Distribution and habitat. "Philotheca scabra" grows in heath and forest on the coast and nearby ranges of New South Wales between Sydney and the Nerriga and Nowra districts. Subspecies "scaber" occurs in the northern part of the  species' distribution and subsp. "latifolius" near Nerriga and Nowra.