Philotheca cuticularis

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 0.6 m and has glandular-warty branchlets. The leaves are crowded, more or less cylindrical, glandular-warty and 1.5–2 mm long. The flowers are borne singly on the ends of the branchlets on a pedicel 0.5–1 mm long. There are five sepals 1–2 mm long and five elliptical, white petals about 2.5 mm long. The ten stamens 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.