Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Boronia mollis
Common name
Soft boronia
Family
Rutaceae
Where found
Dry forest in gullies. Sydney area and north.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high. Branchlets densely 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 3–9 leaflets, the terminal leaflet longer and slightly narrower than the lateral leaflets. Rachis 0.5–3.7 cm long, winged; leaflets 1.5–4 cm long, 5–12 mm wide, upper surface hairless to sparsely stellate-hairy, lower surface paler and stellate-hairy but the underlying surface visible belneath the hairs, margins entire and curved down, tips blunt to rounded. Flowers pale to bright pink, with 4 petals each 7–10 mm long. the margins touching each other in bud, persistent at the seeding stage. 8 stamens. Flowers in 2–6-flowered clusters. Flowering: June–November.
Protected NSW.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Boronia~mollis (accessed 5 January, 2020)
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