Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Boronia glabra
Common name
A boronia
Family
Rutaceae
Where found
Woodland. Western Slopes north of Young.
Notes
Shrub to 1.5 m high. Branchlets more or less densely hairy. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, 0.5–3 cm long, 1–6 mm wide, surfaces sparsely stellate-hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see) to almost hairless, lower surface slightly paler than the upper surface, margins entire and curved to rolled down, tips blunt. Flowers usually bright pink, with 4 petals each 5–7 mm long, the margins touching each other in bud, petals persistent at the seeding stage. 8 stamens. Flowers single. Flowering: July–October.
Protected NSW.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Boronia~glabra (accessed 5 January, 2021)
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