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Boronia lanuginosa Endl.
Red Boronia

Reference
Endl., Fenzl, Benth. & Schott, Enum.Pl. 16 (1837)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Shrub, 0.4-1.5 m high, leaves pinnate, pinnae 11-27, linear, margins revolute; sepals longer and wider than petals. Fl. white/pink, Jan to Sep. Sandstones and sand. On sandstone in gullies and creekbeds, or in open woodland and forest.

Helen Coleman, Descriptive Catalogue, 11 December 1998

Scientific Description

Shrub, spines absent; branchlets smooth, without distinct raised glands, +/- cylindrical in cross-section, covered in hairs or scales or glabrous, the hairs stellate (star-shaped). Leaves alternate, compound, 6-80 mm long, with 10-35 leaflets, each 5-25 mm long, 1-3 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; pedicels 4-10 mm long; calyx present, 4-10 mm long, smooth, without distinct raised glands; corolla pink or white or cream, petals four, 4-10 mm long, imbricate (overlapping), free; stamens twice as many as petals. Flowers in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August and September. Occurs in the Northern Botanical Province, in the Victoria Bonaparte IBRA region(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Victoria Bonaparte.
IBRA Subregions
Keep.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Wyndham-East Kimberley.