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Boronia pulchella Turcz.
Pink Boronia

Reference
Bull.Soc.Imp.Naturalistes Moscou 25 (2):162 (1852)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Shrub, (0.2-)0.5-1.2(-3) m high. Fl. pink, Sep to Nov. Stony & sandy soils. Rocky outcrops, gullies, along watercourses, hills.

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, 9.5-20 mm long, with 5-9 leaflets, each 5-8 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 5-6 mm long; calyx present, 2.5-4 mm long, smooth, without distinct raised glands, glabrous except for a ciliate marginal fringe, the hairs stellate (star-shaped); corolla pink, petals four, 8-11 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 1-1.2 mm long, with an appendage; style 3 mm long, hairy. Flowers in September, October and November. 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.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Cranbrook, Gnowangerup, Plantagenet.