Philotheca acrolopha is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is only known from a small area in Queensland. It is a shrub with crowded, wedge-shaped leaves and cream-coloured to pale pink flowers.
Philotheca acrolopha is a shrub that grows to a height of about with reddish branchlets. The leaves are crowded near the ends of the branchlets, wedge-shaped to heart-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide on a short petiole. The flowers are borne singly on the ends of the branchlets on a pedicel about long. There are five more or less round sepals about long and five narrow egg-shaped, cream-coloured to pale pink petals about long. There are ten stamens that are fused at the base, and to the petals. Flowering has been observed in July.[1] [2]
Philotheca acrolopha was first formally described in 1998 by Paul Wilson in the journal Nuytsia. The type specimen was collected on Mount Tozer in the Iron Range National Park.[3]
This philotheca grows in heath on a granite hill and is only known from the type location.
This species is classified as "vulnerable" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.[4] It was previously listed as "vulnerable" under the Australian Government Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 but was removed from that list in December 2010.[5]