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Boronia gracilipes F.Muell.
Karri Boronia

Reference
Fragm. (Mueller) 2:99 (1860)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, spindly shrub, 0.3-1.2(-2) m high. Fl. pink, Jan or Apr or Jul to Dec. Loam, clay, sand, laterite. Gullies, granite outcrops, shady spots.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 16 August 1996
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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 simple or stellate (star-shaped). Leaves opposite, compound, 10-25 mm long, with 5-9 leaflets, each 5-10 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, flat, the margins flat, smooth, without distinct raised glands, covered in hairs or scales, with simple hairs; stipular excrescences absent. Flowers axillary, solitary; pedicels 12-15 mm long; calyx present, 0.5-1.5 mm long, smooth, without distinct raised glands, glabrous; corolla pink, petals four, 5-6 mm long, imbricate (overlapping), free, glabrous; stamens twice as many as petals, 2 mm long, warty with prominent raised glands, glabrous; anthers 0.5 mm long. Flowers in January, April, July, August, September, October, November and December. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Jarrah Forest, Warren and Esperance IBRA region(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
IMCRA Regions
WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Augusta Margaret River, Busselton, Cranbrook, Denmark, Manjimup, Nannup, Plantagenet.