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Boronia repanda

Boronia repanda
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Rutaceae (Citrus family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
E. Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Boronia repanda, commonly known as the granite rose, repand boronia or border boronia, is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is endemic to an area near the eastern border between New South Wales and Queensland in Australia. It is a small erect, woody shrub with many branches, thick warty, oblong leaves and pink, rarely white flowers arranged singly in leaf axils.

Where it grows

The granite boronia is known from nine populations in Granite Belt and Darling Downs areas of south-east Queensland and one population on the Northern Tablelands region of New South Wales near the Queensland border. It grows in heath and woodland on granite.

Other Boronia plants

Barbalin boronia · Winged Boronia · Boronia albiflora · Alpine Boronia · Boronia alulata · Boronia amabilis · Boronia amplectens · Boronia anceps · Cyanothamnus anemonifolius · Cyanothamnus quadrangulus · Boronia angustisepala · Boronia anomala

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Boronia repanda by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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