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Synonyms: Boronia ledifolia var. repanda F.Muell. ex Maiden & Betche APNI*

Description: Shrub 0.3–1.5 m high; young branchlets and leaves pilose with white stellate hairs, smooth to glandular-warty.

Leaves 1-foliolate, lamina oblong, 4–18 mm long, 1–4 mm wide, apex obtuse, margins glandular-crenulate and revolute to recurved, thick and prominently glandular-warty, both surfaces moderately hairy with long white hairs to glabrescent, lower surface paler; petiole 0.5–1.5 mm long.

Inflorescences axillary, 1-flowered; pedicel 1.5–4 mm long. Calyx tomentose. Petals 6–8 mm long, valvate, pale to bright pink or occasionally white, tomentose, persistent in fruit.

Cocci hairy.

Illustration C. Wardrop

Habitat Photo A.E. Orme

Habit Photo A.E. Orme

Flower Photo A.E. Orme

Fruit Photo A.E. Orme

Other photo Photo A.E. Orme

Flowering: July–November

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in heath, on granite outcrops in the Stanthorpe district.
NSW subdivisions: NT
Other Australian states: Qld
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Endangered; Commonwealth EPBC: Endangered

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