acuta is a subspecies of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to New South Wales.

The petals are broadly elliptic, about 8 mm (0.31 in) long with a prominent keel.

[2][3][4] This taxon was first formally described in 1941 by William Blakely who gave it the Eriostemon myoporoides var.

acutus and published the description in Contributions from the New South Wales Herbarium.

[5] In 1998, Michael James Bayly changed the name to Philotheca myoporoides subsp.