Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Boronia ledifolia
Common name
Showy Boronia, Sydney Boronia, Ledum Boronia
Family
Rutaceae
Where found
Dry forest, shrubland, heath, and near streams. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.
Notes
Shrub to 2.5 m high. Branchlets stellate-hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), often glandular-warty. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, simple, or compound with 3–7 leaflets, terminal leaflet usually the longest. Simple leaves 0.3–4.3 cm long, 1–7 mm wide. Compound leaves with a winged rachis 0.2–0.8 cm long, leaflets 0.4–3.4 cm long, 1–5 mm wide. Leaves/leaflets with the upper surface sparsely hairy to hairless and shining, lower surface hairy and paler, margins entire and curved to rolled down, tips pointed to blunt. Flowers pale to bright pink, occasionally white, densely hairy, with 4 petals each 5–12 mm long, persistent at the seeding stage. Petal margins touching each other in bud. 8 stamens. Flowers in 1-3 flowered clusters. Flowers winter-summer.
Protected NSW.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Boronia~ledifolia (accessed 5 January, 2021)
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