Waltheria virgata is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family, Malvaceae, that is found in the north of Western Australia,[3] and in the Northern Territory.

[4] Waltheria virgata is an erect, much branched shrub growing from a height of 0.3 m to 1 m high, and up to 1 m wide.

[3] Its leaves and stems are thinly to densely covered in stellate (star-shaped) hairs.

[1][5] The specific epithet, virgata, derives from the Latin word, virga, "a rod for beating", to give a Botanical Latin adjective describing the plant as having "straight slender not very flexible twigs".

[6] The genus name, Waltheria, honours the German botanist Augustin Friedrich Walther.