Boronia crassifolia
| Boronia crassifolia | |
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| Near Hammersley Inlet | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Rutaceae |
| Genus: | Boronia |
| Species: | B. crassifolia
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| Binomial name | |
| Boronia crassifolia | |
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| Occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium | |
Boronia crassifolia is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a small, slender shrub with pinnate leaves, and yellowish green to brownish, four petalled flowers.
Description
[edit]Boronia crassifolia is a slender, rounded shrub that grows to a height of about 30 cm (10 in). It has pinnate leaves with three, five, or seven linear- to spatula-shaped leaflets 5–10 mm (0.2–0.4 in). The flowers are yellowish-green to brownish, about 10 mm (0.4 in) in diameter and hang from the leaf axils on a pedicel 3–5 mm (0.1–0.2 in) long. The four sepals are red, more or less round and about 2.5 mm (0.1 in) long. The four petals are about 4 mm (0.2 in) long. The eight stamens alternate in length, with the four near the petals longer than those near the sepals.[2][3][4][5]
Taxonomy and naming
[edit]Boronia crassifolia was first formally described in 1845 by Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling and the description was published in Plantae Preissianae.[6][7] The specific epithet (crassifolia) is derived from the Latin words crassus meaning "thick", "fat" or "stout"[8]: 237 and folium meaning "a leaf".[8]: 466
Distribution and habitat
[edit]Boronia crassifolia grows on sandplains and sand dunes, often among rocks near Mount Lesueur and from near Perth to the Stirling Range and east to the Twilight Cove, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Hampton, Jarrah Forest and Mallee biogeographic regions.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Boronia crassifolia". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ a b Duretto, Marco F.; Wilson, Paul G.; Ladiges, Pauline Y. "Boronia crassifolia". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ a b "Boronia crassifolia". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
- ^ Bentham, George; von Mueller, Ferdinand (1863). Flora Australiensis (Volume 1). London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 316–317. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ Corrick, Margaret G.; Fuhrer, Bruce A. (2009). Wildflowers of southern Western Australia (3rd ed.). Dural, N.S.W.: Rosenberg Publishing. p. 190. ISBN 9781877058844.
- ^ "Boronia crassifolia". APNI. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ Bartling, Friedrich Gottlieb (1845). Plantae Presiiianae. Hamburg. p. 169. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ a b Brown, Roland Wilbur (1956). The Composition of Scientific Words. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.