Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Boronia rubiginosa
Common name
A boronia
Family
Rutaceae
Where found
Dry forest. Coast and ranges north from west of Bowral.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high. Branchlets 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 3–7 leaflets. Rachis 0.4–2 cm long, winged; leaflets 0.4–3 cm long, 3–12 mm wide, hairless to sparsely stellate-hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), lower surface prominently paler than the upper surface, margins entire and curved down or flat, tips blunt or with a small notch. Flowers pale to bright pink, stellate hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see) to hairless, with 4 petals each 6–10 mm long. Petals with the margins touching each other in bud, persistent at the seeding stage. 8 stamens. Flowers in 1–3 flowered clusters. Flowers July–November.
Protected NSW.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Boronia~rubiginosa (accessed 5 January, 2021)
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