Boronia rubiginosa
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| Boronia rubiginosa | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Rutaceae |
| Genus: | Boronia |
| Species: | B. rubiginosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Boronia rubiginosa | |
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| Occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium | |
Boronia rubiginosa is a species of flowering plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a shrub with pinnate leaves that are paler on the lower surface, and up to three pale to bright pink, four-petalled flowers in the leaf axils.
Boronia rubiginosa is a shrub that grows to a height of 2 m (6 ft 7 in) with more or less hairy branchlets. The leaves are pinnate with between three and seven elliptic to spatula-shaped leaflets that are paler on the lower surface. The leaves are 8–46 mm (0.31–1.81 in) long and 4–35 mm (0.16–1.38 in) wide in outline, on a petiole 1–12 mm (0.039–0.472 in) long. The end leaflet is 4–23 mm (0.16–0.91 in) long and 3–10 mm (0.12–0.39 in) wide and the side leaflets are shorter and narrower. Up to three pale to bright pink, woolly-hairy flowers are arranged in leaf axils on a peduncle 2–8.5 mm (0.079–0.335 in) long, the individual flowers on a pedicel 3–10 mm (0.1–0.4 in) long. The four sepals are egg-shaped to triangular, 2–3 mm (0.08–0.1 in) long, 1–1.5 mm (0.04–0.06 in) wide. The four petals are 6–11 mm (0.24–0.43 in) long and 3–4.5 mm (0.1–0.2 in) wide. The eight stamens alternate in length with those near the sepals slightly longer than those near the petals. Flowering occurs from July to November and the fruit is a glabrous or densely hairy capsule 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) long and 3–3.5 mm (0.12–0.14 in) wide.[2][3][4]