Boronia hemichiton Duretto

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Rutaceae > Boronia

Characteristics

Woody shrub to 30 cm high. Branchlets slightly glandular-verrucose, puberulous; decurrent leaf bases faint. Leaves 3–7-foliolate, 9–12 mm long, 12–16 mm wide, puberulous on proximal areas, with few hairs distally; petiole and rachis segments 1.5–2.5 mm long; leaflets linear to narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate, 2–9 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, entire. Inflorescences axillary, 1–5-flowered; peduncles 1–2 mm long; pedicels 2–4 mm long. Sepals narrowly triangular to deltate, 0.75–1.5 mm long; abaxial surface with few hairs or sparsely puberulous. Petals 4.5–5.5 mm long, white to pink; abaxial surface puberulous. Stamens: filaments pilose, glandular-verrucose towards apex; anthers not apiculate. Ovary and style glabrous; stigma minute. Cocci glabrous or with few hairs.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.3
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Environment

Grows in often dense shrubland on the forest edge.
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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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Images

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Distribution

Boronia hemichiton world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:20012512-1
WFO ID wfo-0000569175
COL ID MKVN
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Synonyms

Boronia hemichiton