Boronia barkeriana
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| Barker's boronia | |
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| Boronia barkeriana subsp. angustifolia in the Australian National Botanic Gardens | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Rutaceae |
| Genus: | Boronia |
| Species: | B. barkeriana |
| Binomial name | |
| Boronia barkeriana | |
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| Occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium | |
Boronia barkeriana, commonly known as Barker's boronia,[2] is a plant in the citrus family, Rutaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with ground-hugging branches, simple, toothed leaves and bright pink, four-petalled flowers.
Boronia barkeriana is a shrub with ground-hugging branches and which grows to a height of 0.2–1 m (0.7–3 ft) with glabrous, often reddish stems. It has simple, narrow lance-shaped to narrow egg-shaped leaves 10–33 mm (0.39–1.3 in) long and 2–10 mm (0.079–0.39 in) wide, usually without a petiole. The leaves have small teeth on the edge and are often reddish along the edges and undersides. Between two and eight bright pink to pinkish mauve flowers are arranged in groups in the leaf axils, each flower on a pedicel 4–18 mm (0.2–0.7 in) long. The four sepals are purple, triangular to egg-shaped, about 1.5–8 mm (0.06–0.3 in) long and 1–6 mm (0.04–0.2 in) wide. The four petals are 5–11 mm (0.2–0.4 in) long with their bases overlapping. The eight stamens have hairy edges. Flowering occurs mainly from September to December and the fruit are glabrous, about 4 mm (0.16 in) long and 2 mm (0.079 in) wide.[2][3][4]