Boronia angustisepala Duretto APNI* Synonyms: Boronia rubiginosa sensu Weston & Porteners - 1991 APNI*
Boronia rubiginosa A.Cunn. ex Endl. APNI*
Boronia rubiginosa sensu Jacobs & Pickard(1981), Weston et al.(1984) Weston (1990)etc. non A.Cunn. ex Endl. APNI*
Boronia sp. D (aff. rubiginosa) sensu Jacobs & Pickard (1981) APNI*
Description: Shrub to 1.5 m high; branchlets stellate-tomentose.
Leaves pinnate with 3–11 leaflets or rarely some leaves 1-foliolate, terminal leaflet longest; rachis 7–30 mm long, winged; leaflets elliptic to spathulate, 5–25 mm long, 2–9 mm wide, apex rounded to obtuse, margins entire and ± recurved, upper surface glabrous to tomentose, lower surface tomentose and paler; petiole 2–5 mm long.
Inflorescences axillary, 1–3-flowered; pedicels 7–12 mm long. Calyx tomentose. Petals 9–12 mm long, valvate, bright pink, tomentose especially on midrib, persistent in fruit.
Cocci glabrous to moderately hairy.
Flowering: Flowers July–November
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in dry sclerophyll forest on skeletal sandstone-derived soils, not common, western section of the Nandewar Ra., Gibraltar Ra. and the Bylong-Sandy Hollow-Denman district.
NSW subdivisions: NT, NWS, CWS
Text by P.H. Weston & M.F. Duretto
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