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Boronia scabra Lindl. subsp. scabra

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

Erect, compact shrub, 0.1-0.8 m high, flowers 4-merous, cymes pedunculate, staminal filaments smooth. Fl. pink, Jul to Dec. Variety of soils.

Helen Coleman, Descriptive Catalogue, 19 May 1998
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Scientific Description

Shrub, spines absent; branchlets smooth, without distinct raised glands, +/- cylindrical in cross-section, covered in hairs or scales, the hairs stellate (star-shaped). Leaves opposite, simple, 5-15 mm long, 1-3 mm wide, flat, the margins recurved or revolute, smooth, without distinct raised glands, covered in hairs or scales, with stellate (star shaped) hairs; stipular excrescences absent. Flowers in terminal, loose clusters (cymes or panicles); pedicels 4-15 mm long; calyx present, 2-3.5 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, 2-2.2 mm long, warty with prominent raised glands, glabrous; anthers 0.8-1 mm long, with an appendage. Flowers in July, August, September, October, November and December. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Esperance, Swan Coastal Plain and Geraldton IBRA region(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Fitzgerald, Geraldton Hills, Katanning, Lesueur Sandplain, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Recherche, Western Mallee.
IMCRA Regions
Leeuwin-Naturaliste, WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Armadale, Beverley, Brookton, Carnamah, Chapman Valley, Chittering, Coorow, Cranbrook, Cuballing, Dandaragan, Esperance, Gingin, Gnowangerup, Greater Geraldton, Jerramungup, Moora, Narrogin, Northam, Northampton, Perth, Pingelly, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Toodyay, Victoria Plains, Woodanilling.