Philotheca virgata, commonly known as Tasmanian wax-flower,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia.

It is a slender, erect shrub with wedge-shaped to oblong leaves and white or pale pink flowers at the ends of branchlets.

The flowers are arranged singly on the end of branchlets on a thin pedicel 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) long.

Flowering occurs from May to December and the fruit is about 5 mm (0.20 in) long with a short beak.

[2][3][4] Tasmanian wax-flower was first formally described in 1840 by Joseph Dalton Hooker from an unpublished description by Allan Cunningham who gave it the name Erisotemon virgatus.