Boronia nana Hook. APNI* 
Description: Dwarf shrub 0.08–25 m high, branchlets pilose in 2 lines separated by glabrous decurrent leaf bases, ± glandular-warty.
Leaves 1-foliolate, lamina ± linear-elliptic, 4–25 mm long, 0.5–2 mm wide, apex acute, margins entire, often thickened, glabrous to pilose; sessile.
Inflorescences axillary, 1-flowered; pedicel 4–7 mm long. Calyx glabrous. Petals 3–5 mm long, imbricate, white to pale pink, glabrous, persistent in fruit.
Cocci glabrous.
Flowering: October–January
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in open forest and heath on upper slopes of ranges, south from the Blue Mtns (Mt Wilson).
NSW subdivisions: CC, SC, CT, ST, CWS, SWS
Other Australian states: Vic. Tas.
Text by P.H. Weston & M.F. Duretto
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