Common name: Deane's Boronia
Boronia deanei Maiden & Betche APNI* Synonyms: Boronia deanii APNI*
Description: Erect shrub 0.2–1.5 m high, glabrous; branchlets slightly angled, moderately covered with minute warts.
Leaves aromatic, crowded, 1-foliolate, lamina ± terete, linear to linear-obovate, 4–12 mm long, 0.5–2 mm wide, apex acute to obtuse, margins entire, thick, upper surface smooth, lower surface prominently glandular-warty; sessile.
Inflorescences terminal, 1–3-flowered; pedicels 1–3 mm long. Petals 4–5 mm long, imbricate, white to bright pink, not persistent in fruit. Staminal filaments glabrous.
Cocci glabrous.
Flowering: Sept.–Nov.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in wet heath; rare, from Lithgow to Nalbangle N.P. near the Vic. border. {k}
NSW subdivisions: CC, CT, ST
Threatened species: NSW TSCA: Vulnerable ROTAP: 2VC
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