Philotheca spicata
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Philotheca spicata, commonly known as pepper and salt,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a small shrub with linear to narrow elliptical leaves and pink, mauve or blue flowers arranged in a raceme on the ends of branchlets.
Description
Philotheca spicata is a shrub that typically grows to a height of Template:Cvt and has smooth branchlets. The leaves are linear to narrow elliptical, Template:Cvt long and concave on the upper surface. The flowers are arranged in leafless racemes of many flowers up to Template:Cvt or more long with broadly elliptical bracts at the base of a thin pedicel Template:Cvt long. The five sepals are triangular, about Template:Cvt long, the petals are broadly elliptical, about Template:Cvt long and the ten stamens are Template:Cvt long. Flowering occurs from June to November, and the fruit is about Template:Cvt long with two teeth on the end.[1][2][3]
Taxonomy
This species was first described in 1834 by French botanist Achille Richard who gave it the name Erisotemon spicatus in Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe - Botanique.[4][5] In 1998, Paul Wilson changed the name to Philotheca spicata in the journal Nuytsia.[6][7]
Distribution and habitat
Pepper and salt grows in sand or loam over laterite and occurs between Eneabba and Albany in the south-west of Western Australia.[2]
Conservation status
This philotheca is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.[1]
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