Diplolaena obovata is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae. It is a small shrub with yellow, green or red pendulous flowers. It is endemic to Western Australia.
Diplolaena obovata is a small upright shrub to high, branchlets are more or less cylindrical, smooth and covered with scales or star-shaped hairs. The leaves are arranged opposite, egg-shaped, papery, wide, long, flat, smooth and covered sparsely with star-shaped hairs. The corolla is yellow, red or green with five overlapping petals long, hairy and surrounded by bracts on a pedicel long.Flowering occurs in May, June, August and September.[1]
Diplolaena obovata was first formally described in 1998 by Paul G. Wilson and the description was published in Nuytsia.[2] [3] The specific epithet (obovata) means means "egg-shaped".[4]
This species grows in shallow sandy soils in south-west Western Australia from Green Head to Lancelin.[1]