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Boronia microphylla Sieber ex Rchb.
Family Rutaceae
Common name: Small Leaved Boronia

Boronia microphylla Sieber ex Rchb. APNI*

Synonyms: Boronia microphylla Sieber ex Spreng. APNI*

Description: Shrub 0.3–1 m high; branchlets sparsely bristly, glabrescent with age, glandular-warty.

Leaves pinnate with 5–15 leaflets, terminal leaflet shortest; rachis 3–16 mm long, winged; leaflets spathulate to broad-spathulate or cuneate, 3–8 mm long, 1–4 mm wide, apex obtuse and mucronate, margins entire, glabrous, ± thick, ± glandular-warty; petiole 2–6 mm long.

Inflorescences mostly in the upper axils, 1–5-flowered; pedicels 3–10 mm long. Calyx glabrous. Petals 5–8 mm long, imbricate, bright pink to rose purple, glabrous, not persistent in fruit.

Cocci glabrous.


Habit
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Flower
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Flowering: October–February

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in heath and dry sclerophyll forest on sandstone, north from Moruya.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, ST, CWS
Other Australian states: Qld
AVH map***

Text by P.H. Weston & M.F. Duretto
Taxon concept: M.C. Duretto (2003)


APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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