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Boronia nematophylla F.Muell.

Reference
Fragm. 2:100 (1860)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Slender shrub, 0.3-1 m high. Fl. red-pink, Apr to Dec. Sandy soils. Dunes, sandplains.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 19 August 1996
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Scientific Description

Shrub, spines absent; branchlets smooth, without distinct raised glands, +/- cylindrical in cross-section, glabrous. Leaves opposite, simple, 9-30 mm long, 0.8-1 mm wide, flat, the margins revolute, smooth, without distinct raised glands, covered in hairs or scales or glabrous, with stellate (star shaped) hairs; stipular excrescences absent. Flowers axillary, solitary or terminal. solitary; pedicels 5-6 mm long; calyx present, 2-3 mm long, smooth, without distinct raised glands, glabrous; corolla red or pink, petals four, 8-11 mm long, imbricate (overlapping), free, glabrous; stamens twice as many as petals, 4-4.3 mm long, smooth, ciliate (with a marginal fringe of hairs); anthers 0.8-1 mm long, with an appendage. Flowers in April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Warren and Esperance IBRA region(s).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 14 November 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Katanning, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Boyup Brook, Broomehill-Tambellup, Collie, Cranbrook, Denmark, Dumbleyung, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Manjimup, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe, West Arthur.