{{short description|Species of plant}} {{Speciesbox |name = |image = |image_caption = |status_system = DECF |status = P1 |genus = Philotheca |species = nutans |authority = (Paul G.Wilson) Paul G.Wilson<ref name=APC>{{cite web|title=''Philotheca nutans''|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/162020|publisher=Australian Plant Census|accessdate=8 August 2020}}</ref> |synonyms_ref =<ref name="APC" /> |synonyms = * ''Eriostemon nutans'' <small>Paul G.Wilson</small> }} '''''Philotheca nutans''''' is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a small, densely-branched shrub with club-shaped to cylindrical, glandular-warty leaves and pendent, pale yellow to pale red flowers arranged singly in leaf axils.
==Description== ''Philotheca nutans'' is a densely-branched shrub that grows to a height of {{cvt|30–90|cm}} with glandular-warty branchlets. The leaves are cylindrical to club-shaped, about {{cvt|11|mm}} long and glandular-warty on the lower surface. The flowers are pendent and borne singly in leaf axils, each flower on a thin pedicel about {{cvt|8|mm}} long. There are five broadly egg-shaped sepals about {{cvt|2.5|mm}} long and five broadly egg-shaped, pale yellow to pale red petals {{cvt|7–10|mm}}. The ten stamens are densely woolly-hairy. Flowering occurs from July to September.<ref name="FoA">{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Paul G. |last2=Wilson |first2=Annette J.G. (ed.) |title=Flora of Australia (Volume 26) |date=2013 |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study |location=Canberra |pages=377–378 |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Philotheca%20nutans |accessdate=5 August 2020}}</ref><ref name="Nuytsia">{{cite journal |last1=Wilson |first1=Paul G. |title=A taxonomic revision of the genera ''Crowea'', ''Eriostemon'' and ''Phebalium'' (Rutaceae) |journal=Nuytsia |date=1970 |volume=1 |issue=1 |page=28 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/223300#page/34/mode/1up |accessdate=8 August 2020}}</ref><ref name=FloraBase>{{FloraBase|name=''Philotheca nutans''|id=18511}}</ref>
==Taxonomy and naming== This philotheca was first formally described in 1970 by Paul Wilson who gave it the name ''Eriostemon nutans'' and published the description in the journal ''Nuytsia'' from specimens collected by Charles Gardner in 1953.<ref name="Nuytsia" /><ref name=APNI1>{{cite web|title=''Eriostemon nutans''|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/499671|publisher=APNI|accessdate=8 August 2020}}</ref> In 1998, Wilson changed the name to ''Philotheca nutans'' in the same journal.<ref name=APNI>{{cite web|title=''Philotheca nutans''|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/557410 |publisher=APNI|accessdate=8 August 2020}}</ref><ref name="Nuytsia2">{{cite journal |last1=Wilson |first1=Paul G. |title=A Taxonomic Review of the genera ''Eriostemon'' and ''Philotheca'' |journal=Nuytsia |date=1998 |volume=12 |issue=2 |page=253 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/226456#page/99/mode/1up |accessdate=8 August 2020}}</ref>
==Distribution and habitat== ''Philotheca nutans'' grows in woodland near the Wubin-Paynes Find road in the south-west of Western Australia.<ref name="FoA" />
==Conservation status== ''Philotheca nutans'' is classified as "Priority One" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife,<ref name="FloraBase" /> meaning that it is known from only one or a few locations which are potentially at risk.<ref name=codes>{{cite web|title=Conservation codes for Western Australian Flora and Fauna|url=https://www.dpaw.wa.gov.au/images/documents/plants-animals/threatened-species/Listings/Conservation%20code%20definitions.pdf|publisher=Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife|accessdate=8 August 2020}}</ref>
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nutans Category:Flora of Western Australia Category:Sapindales of Australia Category:Plants described in 1970 Category:Taxa named by Paul Graham Wilson