Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Boronia anethifolia

Leafy branches with open seed cases. Photographer Jackie Miles, Deua National Park

Common name

A boronia

Family

Rutaceae

Where found

Dry forest, heath, and rocky areas. Ranges and the eastern edge of the tablelands north from Wadbilliga National Park. Western Sydney. Rarely elsewhere.

Notes

Shrub to 1 m high. Branchlets 4-angled, or with 2 grooves separated by leaf bases continuing down the stems, hairless, glandular-warty. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, compound, bipinnate with 3–5 pinnae, the lower pinnae each with 3 leaflets. Rachis 0.7-2.5 cm long. Leaflets 3–15 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, tips pointed, margins entire, surfaces hairless and glandular-warty. Flowers white to pale pink or orange, with 4 petals each 3–4 mm long. Petals overlapping each other in bud, persistent at the seeding stage. 8 stamens. Flowers in mostly 3–7-flowered clusters. Flowering: April–October

Protected NSW.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Boronia~anethifolia (accessed 5 January, 2021)