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Boronia heterophylla F.Muell.
Kalgan Boronia

Reference
Fragm. (Mueller) 2:98 (1860)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, slender shrub, 1-3(-5) m high. Fl. red/pink, Sep to Nov. Sandy soils. Wet flats & places, river banks.

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, glabrous. Leaves opposite, compound, 20-50 mm long, each 11-20 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, flat, the margins flat, smooth, without distinct raised glands, glabrous; stipular excrescences absent. Flowers axillary, solitary; pedicels 7-10 mm long; calyx present, 2-3 mm long, smooth, without distinct raised glands, glabrous; corolla red or pink, petals four, 7-12 mm long, imbricate (overlapping), free, hairy on the surfaces; stamens twice as many as petals, smooth, hairy; style 2 mm long, glabrous. Flowers in September, October and November. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Jarrah Forest, Esperance and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA region(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Augusta Margaret River, Busselton, Cranbrook, Denmark, Nannup, Plantagenet.