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Boronia ternata Endl. var. ternata

Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect shrub, 0.3-2 m high. Fl. white/pink, May to Sep. Sandy, often gravelly soils.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 19 August 1996

Scientific Description

Shrub, spines absent; branchlets smooth, without distinct raised glands, +/- cylindrical in cross-section, covered in hairs or scales or glabrous, the hairs stellate (star-shaped). Leaves opposite, simple, 5.5-12 mm long, 3-5 mm wide, with 3 leaflets, flat, the margins revolute, smooth, without distinct raised glands, glabrous; stipular excrescences absent. Flowers; pedicels 1.5-2 mm long; calyx present, 2-3.5 mm long, smooth, without distinct raised glands, covered in hairs or scales, the hairs stellate (star-shaped); corolla pink or white or cream, petals four, 4.5-10 mm long, valvate (not overlapping), free, hairy on the surfaces; stamens twice as many as petals, smooth, hairy. Flowers in May, June, July, August and September. Occurs in the Eremaean and South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA region(s).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 14 November 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Merredin, Southern Cross, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Bruce Rock, Coolgardie, Dalwallinu, Dumbleyung, Dundas, Esperance, Kondinin, Koorda, Lake Grace, Merredin, Mukinbudin, Narembeen, Nungarin, Perenjori, Westonia, Yilgarn.