Philotheca verrucosa , commonly known as Bendigo Waxflower or Fairy Waxflower, is a shrub in the family Rutaceae

Rutaceae

Rutaceae, commonly known as the rue or citrus family, is a family of flowering plants, usually placed in the order Sapindales.Species of the family generally have flowers that divide into four or five parts, usually with strong scents...

. The species is endemic to south-east Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. It is usually up to 1.2 metres high, although heights up to 2 metres have been recorded in Gippsland

Gippsland

Gippsland is a large rural region in Victoria, Australia. It begins immediately east of the suburbs of Melbourne and stretches to the New South Wales border, lying between the Great Dividing Range to the north and Bass Strait to the south...

. It produces white flowers from August to October in its native range.

The species was first described in 1834 by French botanist Achille Richard

Achille Richard

Achille Richard was a French botanist and physician .He was son of a notable botanist, Louis-Claude Marie Richard .Pharmacist in the French fleet and member of several well-known societies of their time....

 who gave it the name Erisotemon verrucosum, later amended to Eriostemon verrucosus. It was transferred to the genus Philotheca

Philotheca

Philotheca is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rutaceae. Many plants formerly in Eriostemon are now in this genus....

by Paul G. Wilson in 1998.