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Boronia juncea Bartl. subsp. juncea

Conservation Code
Priority One
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Slender or straggly shrub, pedicels and sepals glabrous. Fl. pink, Apr. Sand. Low scrub.

Helen Coleman, Descriptive Catalogue, 19 May 1998

Scientific Description

Shrub, spines absent; branchlets smooth, without distinct raised glands, +/- cylindrical in cross-section, glabrous. Leaves opposite, simple, 10-40 mm long, 0.5 mm wide, flat, the margins flat, smooth, without distinct raised glands, glabrous; stipular excrescences absent. Flowers in terminal, loose clusters (cymes or panicles); pedicels 3-6 mm long; calyx present, 4-4.5 mm long, smooth, without distinct raised glands, glabrous; corolla pink, petals four, 5-6.5 mm long, imbricate (overlapping), free, glabrous; stamens twice as many as petals; anthers 1 mm long, with an appendage. Flowers in April. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Swan Coastal Plain IBRA region(s). Conservation Code: Priority One (P1).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Perth.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Harvey, Kwinana.