Boronia tenuis Benth.

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Rutaceae > Boronia

Characteristics

Woody perennial to 0.6 m high, glabrous except stamens. Branchlets slender; decurrent leaf bases faint or absent. Leaves sessile, filiform, terete, 5–20 mm long, shorter than internodes, acute, channelled above. Flowers axillary, solitary or in groups of 2 or 3; pedicels slender,  7–15 mm long. Sepals narrowly ovate or narrowly triangular, c. 3 mm long. Petals elliptic, 6–7 mm long, thin, white to pink adaxially, pale blue with darker narrow keel abaxially. Stamens: filaments narrowly elliptic, ciliate, glandular-verrucose towards apex; anthers  0.7 mm long, with a swollen rounded apiculum c. 0.5 mm long. Style slender, c. 1 mm long; stigma minute.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.6
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Environment

Generally growing on laterite. 
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Usage

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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 tenuis world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:771699-1
WFO ID wfo-0000569325
COL ID MKYS
BDTFX ID -
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Boronia tenuis Cyanothamnus tenuis