Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Boronia microphylla
Common name
Small-leaved boronia
Family
Rutaceae
Where found
Forest and heath. Ranges north of Cobargo.
Notes
Shrub to 1 m high. Branchlets sparsely bristly, becoming hairless with age, glandular-warty. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, compound, with 5–15 leaflets, terminal leaflet shortest. Rachis 0.3–1.6 cm long, winged. Leaflets 0.3–0.8 cm long, 1–4 mm wide, hairless, more or less thick, more or less glandular-warty, margins entire, tips blunt and mucronate. Flowers bright pink to rose purple, rarely white, with 4 petals each 5–8 mm long. Petals overlapping each other in bud, falling early. 8 stamens. Flowers in 1–5 flowered clusters. Flowering: October–February
Protected NSW.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Boronia~microphylla (accessed 5 January, 2021)
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