Philotheca verrucosa

Shrub or subshrub to c. 80 cm high; branchlets glabrous, with many prominent oil glands, lacking dark, stipule-like excrescences. Leaves narrowly to broadly obcordate, 6–15 mm long, 4–7 mm wide, leathery, more or less concolorous, smooth above, prominently glandular-verrucose below, margins thick. Inflorescences axillary, 1–3-flowered; pedicels borne on a common peduncle. Flowers 5-merous; sepals suborbicular, c. 1 mm long; petals elliptic, c. 6 mm long, white (pink in bud), glabrous (but often papillose within), not persisting in fruit; anthers with two prominent glands beneath white apiculum; ovary glabrous, carpels free for most of their length. Follicles prominently beaked, c. 6 mm long; seed flattened-ellipsoid, c. 4.5 mm long. Flowers mostly Aug.–Oct.