Boronia octandra Paul G.wilson

Species

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Characteristics

Rounded shrub to 30 cm high. Branchlets puberulous in opposite lines. Leaves subsessile,  3 (5)-foliolate, glabrous; leaflets subterete, c. 5 mm long, obtuse, fleshy. Flowers axillary, solitary, pendulous; pedicel c. 2 mm long, shortly turbinate at apex. Sepals ovate, c. 3 mm long, acute, with very few hairs. Petals c. 8 mm long, with very few hairs, pale green to reddish brown. Disc puberulous to glabrous, divided into antipetalous masses. Stamens: filaments minutely pilose; antisepalous filaments with large apical abaxial verrucose swelling; anthers c. 0.8 mm long. Ovary not exceeding disc, densely pubescent; stigma sessile, hemispherical, c. 0.6 mm wide with 4 rounded lobes.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.3
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Environment

Grows in loam. 
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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

Boronia octandra unspecified picture

Distribution

Boronia octandra world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:771655-1
WFO ID wfo-0000569243
COL ID MKX7
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Synonyms

Boronia octandra