Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Boronia fraseri
Common name
A boronia
Family
Rutaceae
Where found
Rainforest and wet forest in gullies. Coast, ranges, and Southern Highlands, north from west of Berrima.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high. Branchlets prominently 4-angled, hairless to sparsely stellate-hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, compound, with 3–7 leaflets, the terminal leaflet longest. Rachis 0.6–3 cm long, winged; leaflets 1–6 cm long, 3–15 mm wide, hairless, lower surface paler than the upper surface, margins entire and curved down, tips blunt. Flowers bright pink or occasionally pale pink, with 4 petals each 6–10 mm long, the margins touching each other in bud, densely hairy, persistent at the seeding stage. 8 stamens. Flowers in 2–6-flowered clusters. Flowering: August–November.
Protected NSW.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Boronia~fraseri (accessed 5 January, 2021)
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