Philotheca rhomboidea

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Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Sapindales/Rutaceae/Philotheca

At a glance

Occurrence records114

Data sources5

Biological traits19

DNA specimens0

eDNA detections0

Sources5 archives

Databases and archives Philotheca rhomboidea's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility114 records↗

LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

On this page4 sections

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NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements3 literature sources19 traits

Chemical compositionLOTUS11 compounds

Occurrence & distributionGBIF114 records

01Narrative

Philotheca rhomboidea is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a small undershrub with thick, broadly elliptic to round leaves and white to pale pink flowers arranged singly or in twos or threes at the end of branchlets.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesWCVPAusTraitsGIFT

Size & morphology5

Leaf length3.25 mm

Leaf width1.75 mm

Plant height0.9 m

Plant height max0.9 m

Plant height min0.2 m

Life cycle & reproduction4

Flowering timennnyyyyyyyyn

Life formsubshrub

Life spanperennial

Sex typehermaphrodite

Diet & foraging1

Parasiteindependent

Habitat & environment9

Aquaticterrestrial

Climatesubtropical

Climberself-supporting

Fruit fleshinessdry

Fruit typemericarp

Growth formshrub

Leaf compoundnesssimple

Leaf shapeobovate orbicular widely_elliptical

Woodinesswoody

03Chemical composition11 compounds

Compounds documented for Philotheca rhomboidea across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").

Compound class profile5 classes

Flavonols2

Flavanones2

Merohemiterpenoids2

Flavan-3-ols2

Diacylglycerols $ Monoacylglycerols1

Documented compounds11 total

Tissue Source Quantified only

Compound	Amount	Source
(2S)-5-hydroxy-2-(3-hydroxy-4-methoxyphenyl)-7-[(2S,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-[[(2R,3R,4S,5R,6S)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-methyloxan-2-yl]oxymethyl]oxan-2-yl]oxy-2,3-dihydrochromen-4-one	present	LOTUS
2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-5,8-dihydroxy-7-methoxy-3-[(2S,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxychromen-4-one	present	LOTUS
2-Heptacosyl-5,7-dihydroxychromen-4-one	present	LOTUS
[(2R)-2,3-dihydroxypropyl] tetracosanoate	present	LOTUS
[(2R,3S,4S,5R,6S)-6-[2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-5,8-dihydroxy-7-methoxy-4-oxochromen-3-yl]oxy-3,4,5-trihydroxyoxan-2-yl]methyl (E)-3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)prop-2-enoate	present	LOTUS
alpha-Catechin	present	LOTUS
Catechin	present	LOTUS
Eriostemoic acid	present	LOTUS
Eriostoic acid	present	LOTUS
Hesperidin	present	LOTUS

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type114 records

Wild obs. + sensor13

Museum / vouchered101

Origin

Native6

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO220 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy90% within 1 km

≤100 m 5≤1 km 4≤10 km 1

10 georeferenced · 3 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor13

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy41% within 1 km

≤100 m 17≤1 km 19≤10 km 47>10 km 4

87 georeferenced · 14 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence101

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions7 of 9 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Kensington, AU	54
Canberra, AU	16
Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record	12
Mount Annan, AU	5
Adelaide, AU	4
Brisbane, AU	3
Hobart, AU	3
Palmerston, AU	1
BGPAlocation not on record	1

9 institutions · 99 of 101 vouchered records shown · 2 without an institution code

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