Boronia zeteticorum
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| Boronia zeteticorum | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Rutaceae |
| Genus: | Boronia |
| Species: | B. zeteticorum |
| Binomial name | |
| Boronia zeteticorum | |
Boronia zeteticorum is a species of small, semi-prostrate shrub that is endemic to a restricted part of the Northern Territory. It has hairy branches, leaves and flower parts, simple leaves and white flowers with the sepals longer and wider than the petals.
Boronia zeteticorum is a semi-prostrate shrub with many branches and that typically grows to about 50 cm (20 in) long. Its branches, leaves and some flower parts are covered with sessile, star-like hairs. The leaves are simple, elliptic, 10–35 mm (0.39–1.38 in) long and 1.5–3.5 mm (0.059–0.138 in) wide on a petiole about 1 mm (0.04 in) long. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on a hairy pedicel about 1.5 mm (0.059 in) long with prophylls about 2 mm (0.079 in) long. The sepals are white, hairy, egg-shaped to triangular, 3.5–4 mm (0.14–0.16 in) long, about 2 mm (0.079 in) wide and longer and wider than the petals. The petals are white, 3–3.5 mm (0.12–0.14 in) long and 1–1.5 mm (0.039–0.059 in) wide. The sepals and petals enlarge as the fruit develops. Flowering has been observed in March and the fruit is a hairy capsule about 4 mm (0.16 in) long and 2 mm (0.079 in) wide.[2][3]