Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Boronia rhomboidea

Flowers. Photographer Mike Bayly, Tas

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, east of Braidwood

Flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

A boronia

Family

Rutaceae

Where found

Heath, and swampy areas. Budawang Range and the tablelands west of the Budawng Range.

Notes

Shrub to 0.5 m high. Branchlets moderately hairy. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, 0.5–1.2 cm long, 5–15 mm wide, thick, hairless except for occasionally hairy margins, margins entire, tips rounded. Flowers white to pale pink, with 4 petals each 6–7 mm long. Petals overlapping each other in bud, falling early. 8 stamens. Flowers in 1–3 flowered clusters. Flowering: October–January

Protected NSW.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Boronia~rhomboidea (accessed 5 January, 2021)