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Boronia revoluta Paul G.Wilson
Ironcaps Boronia

Reference
Nuytsia 1:201 (1971)
Conservation Code
Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Shrub, 0.4-0.8 m high. Fl. pink, Jul to Aug. Stony sandy loam or sand. Plains, hillsides & summits.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 19 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 stellate (star-shaped). Leaves opposite, compound, 8-10 mm long, with 3 leaflets, each 5-7 mm long, 1-1.2 mm wide, flat, the margins revolute, smooth, without distinct raised glands, covered in hairs or scales, with stellate (star shaped) hairs; stipular excrescences absent. Flowers; pedicels 3-4 mm long; calyx present, 4-5 mm long, smooth, without distinct raised glands, covered in hairs or scales, the hairs stellate (star-shaped); corolla pink, petals four, 6-8 mm long, valvate (not overlapping), free, hairy on the surfaces; stamens twice as many as petals. Flowers in July and August. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Mallee IBRA region(s). Conservation Code: Threatened (T).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Kondinin, Kulin, Lake Grace.