Boronia fraseri Hook. APNI* 
Description: Shrub 0.5–2 m high; branchlets glabrous to sparsely stellate-hairy, prominently 4-angled.
Leaves pinnate with 3–7 leaflets in distant pairs, terminal leaflet longest; rachis 6–30 mm long, winged; leaflets elliptic to broad-elliptic or obovate, 10–60 mm long, 3–15 mm wide, apex obtuse, margins entire and recurved, glabrous, lower surface paler; petiole 2–30 mm long.
Inflorescences axillary, 2–6-flowered; pedicels 6–16 mm long. Calyx tomentose. Petals 6–10 mm long, valvate, bright pink or occasionally pale, tomentose, persistent in fruit. Staminal filaments glabrous.
Cocci glabrous.
Flowering: August–November
Distribution and occurrence: Grows mainly in wet sclerophyll forest and in rainforest in gullies on sandstone, chiefly in the Sydney region.
NSW subdivisions: CC
Text by P.H. Weston & M.F. Duretto
Taxon concept: M.F. Duretto (1999)
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