Philotheca papillata is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales.

It is a small, erect, multistemmed shrub with glandular-warty, narrow elliptic leaves, and white to pale pink flowers arranged singly on the end of the stems.

Philotheca papillata is an erect, multistemmed shrub that grows to a height of about 60 cm (24 in) with its stems covered by long, soft hairs.

[2][3] Philotheca papillata was first formally described in 2006 by Ian Telford and Lachlan Copeland from specimens collected in the Sherwood Nature Reserve near Glenreagh in 2004.

[2][3] Philotheca papillata is listed as "vulnerable" under the New South Wales Government Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016.