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Boronia oxyantha var. brevicalyx (Benth.) Paul G.Wilson

Reference
Nuytsia 1:202 (1971)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Spreading shrub, 0.3-0.8 m high. Fl. pink, Aug to Dec or Feb. Gravel, clay, loam. Breakaways, ironstone slopes.

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, covered in hairs or scales, the hairs stellate (star-shaped). Leaves opposite, compound, 8-9 mm long, with 3 leaflets, each 7-9 mm long, 0.8-1 mm wide, flat, the margins flat, smooth, without distinct raised glands, covered in hairs or scales, with stellate (star shaped) hairs; stipular excrescences absent. Flowers axillary, solitary; pedicels 2.5-5 mm long; calyx present, 1.5-3 mm long, smooth, without distinct raised glands, covered in hairs or scales, the hairs stellate (star-shaped); corolla pink, petals four, 5-10 mm long, imbricate (overlapping), free, glabrous; stamens twice as many as petals, 1.5-2 mm long, smooth, ciliate (with a marginal fringe of hairs); anthers 0.5 mm long, with an appendage; style 0.5 mm long. Flowers in February, August, September, October, November and December. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Esperance IBRA region(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Recherche.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Ravensthorpe.