Skip to main content

Service Notice

The Western Australian Herbarium’s collections management system, WAHerb, and DBCA’s flora taxonomic names application, WACensus, have been set to read-only mode since 1 October 2025. Recent taxonomic changes are not currently being reflected in Florabase, herbarium collections, or the census. Due to the substantial work involved in data mapping, cleaning, and verification, the migration to the new collection management software is not expected to occur before 1 May 2026, when a further update will be provided. Please reach out to us if you have any questions or concerns.

The notice period started at 9:45 am on Friday, 12 December 2025 +08:00 and will end at 12:00 pm on Saturday, 2 May 2026 +08:00.

Advanced Search

Philotheca brucei (F.Muell.) Paul G.Wilson subsp. brucei

Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect or straggling shrub, 0.3-2 m high, leaves sub-terete. Fl. pink/white, Apr to Sep. Red sandy & loamy soils. Rocky outcrops & hills, breakaways.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 21 August 1996
Image

Scientific Description

Shrub, spines absent; branchlets verrucose (warty), +/- cylindrical in cross-section, glabrous. Leaves alternate, simple, 5-15 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, terete, verrucose (warty), glabrous. Flowers axillary, solitary; pedicels 0.5-5 mm long; calyx present, 1-2.5 mm long, smooth, without distinct raised glands, glabrous; corolla pink or white or cream, petals five, 5-6 mm long, imbricate (overlapping), free, glabrous; stamens twice as many as petals, 2-3 mm long, smooth, ciliate (with a marginal fringe of hairs); anthers 1-1.2 mm long, with an appendage. Flowers in April, May, June, July, August and September. Occurs in the Eremaean and South-West Botanical Province, in the Great Victoria Desert, Coolgardie, Avon Wheatbelt and Geraldton IBRA region(s).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 14 November 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Great Victoria Desert, Jarrah Forest, Murchison, Yalgoo.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Murchison, Edel, Geraldton Hills, Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin, Northern Jarrah Forest, Shield, Southern Cross, Tallering, Western Murchison.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Chapman Valley, Coolgardie, Coorow, Cue, Dalwallinu, Greater Geraldton, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Koorda, Laverton, Leonora, Menzies, Moora, Morawa, Mount Magnet, Mount Marshall, Mukinbudin, Murchison, Northampton, Perenjori, Sandstone, Victoria Plains, Westonia, Wiluna, Yalgoo, Yilgarn.