Family: Rutaceae
Boronia parviflora
Citation:
Smith, Tracts Nat. Hist. 295:t. 6 (1798).
Synonymy: B. palustris Maiden & J. Black, Trans. R.Soc. S. Aust. 35:1 ( 1911).
Common name: Swamp boronia.
Description:
Small spreading to erect or dwarf shrub with slender stems from a thickened rootstock, to 30 cm high; branchlets glabrous; leaves 1-foliolate, subsessile; lamina narrowly elliptic, 6-20 x 1-3 mm, glabrous.
flowers mostly solitary, terminal and axillary; flower-stalks thickening towards the apex, 2-bracteate at the base; sepals ovate, acute, 5-6 mm long, pink or red; petals 4-6 mm long, pink or white; stamens sometimes caducous; filaments terete, pubescent towards the base, sometimes glandular towards the apex; anthers with minute apicula; stigma globular.
Cocci 2.5-3 mm long, glabrous; seeds c. 1.5 mm long, smooth, black and shining.
Published illustration:
J. Black (1948) Fl.S. Aust., fig. 665 as B. palustris.
Distribution:
|
S.Aust.: SL, KI, SE. N.S.W.; Vic.
|
Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: mainly Nov. — Feb.
|
SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
|
Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
|