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Boronia purdieana Diels subsp. purdieana

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

Shrub, 0.2-1.5 m high, petaline anthers more or less square, not curved, ca 4 mm long. Fl. yellow, Jun to Oct. Grey or yellow sand, sometimes over limestone or laterite. Seasonally waterlogged areas, banksia woodland, or shale and diorite hillside.

Helen Coleman, Descriptive Catalogue, 19 May 1998

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, compound, 7-13 mm long, with 5-9 leaflets, each 5-8 mm long, 0.8-1 mm wide, flat, the margins flat, smooth, without distinct raised glands, covered in hairs or scales, with stellate (star shaped) hairs; stipular excrescences absent. Flowers axillary, solitary; pedicels 2-6.5 mm long; calyx present, 4-4.5 mm long, smooth, without distinct raised glands, glabrous except for a ciliate marginal fringe, the hairs stellate (star-shaped); corolla yellow, petals four, 8-10.5 mm long, imbricate (overlapping), free, glabrous; stamens twice as many as petals, warty with prominent raised glands, glabrous. Flowers in June, July, August, September and October. Occurs in the Eremaean and South-West Botanical Province, in the Murchison, Swan Coastal Plain and Geraldton IBRA region(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Geraldton Sandplains, Murchison, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Eastern Murchison, Geraldton Hills, Lesueur Sandplain, Perth.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Busselton, Canning, Carnamah, Coorow, Gingin, Leonora, Northampton, Swan, Three Springs, Wanneroo.