Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Boronia floribunda
Common name
A boronia
Family
Rutaceae
Where found
Dry forest and heath. Coast and ranges north of Batemans Bay. Mainly north of Nowra.
Notes
Shrub to 1 m high. Branchlets hairless, with 2 grooves separated by the ridges formed by leaf bases continuing down the stems. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, compound, with 5–9 leaflets, the terminal leaflet shortest. Rachis 0.4–1.5 cm long, winged; leaflets 0.4–2.5 cm long, 1.5–3 mm wide, thick, more or less glandular-warty, hairless, lower surface paler, margins entire and curved down to flat, tips pointed and mucronate. Flowers white to pale pink or sometimes deep pink, with 4 petals each 8–15 mm long. Petals overlapping each other in bud, falling early. Flowers in 2-3 flowered clusters. 8 stamens. Style tiny, concealed by the massively swollen stigma, hairless. Flowering: September–January.
Protected NSW.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Boronia~floribunda (accessed 5 January, 2021)
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