''Philotheca cuticularis'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a rounded shrub with small, crowded leaves and small white flowers arranged singly on the ends of branchlets.

Description

''Philotheca cuticularis'' is a rounded shrub that grows to a height of and has glandular-warty branchlets. The leaves are crowded, more or less cylindrical, glandular-warty and long. The flowers are borne singly on the ends of the branchlets on a pedicel long. There are five sepals long and five elliptical, white

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s about long. The ten

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s are free from each other and hairy.

Taxonomy and naming

''Philotheca cuticularis'' was first formally described in 1998 by Paul Wilson in the journal '' Nuytsia'' from specimens collected by the Rosemary Purdie in the Grey-Gowan Ranges in 1984.

Distribution

This species of philotheca grows in shallow soil in the Gowan Range of southern Queensland.

Conservation status

This species is classified as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government '' Nature Conservation Act 1992''.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q18075645 cuticularis Flora of Queensland Sapindales of Australia Plants described in 1998 Taxa named by Paul Graham Wilson