Boronia coriacea Paul G.wilson

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Rutaceae > Boronia

Characteristics

Shrub c. 50 cm high. Branches minutely puberulous between decurrent leaf bases, glandular-verrucose. Leaves coriaceous, glabrous, pinnately 3 (or 5)-foliolate; petiole 3–4 mm long; leaflets flat, narrowly obcuneate, c. 12 mm long, c. 1.5 mm wide, obtuse. Flowers in small terminal cymes shortly exceeding leaves, glabrous; pedicels 2–6 mm long. Sepals broadly ovate to suborbicular, c. 1 mm long, coriaceous. Petals broadly ovate, c. 5 mm long, pink. Disc broad. Stamens: filaments terete, glabrous, swollen and glandular-verrucose at apex; anthers  c. 1 mm long, shortly apiculate. Style c. 1 mm long, terete, glabrous; stigma minute, subcapitate.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.5
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Environment

Grows on a gentle limestone scarp in open mallee woodland. 
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 30 - 60
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 23
Germination luminosity light
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Distribution

Boronia coriacea world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:771590-1
WFO ID wfo-0000569115
COL ID 5WP6N
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Synonyms

Boronia coriacea