Boronia crassipes

Boronia crassipes is a plant in the citrus family, Rutaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, spindly, glabrous shrub with simple leaves, and pale red or pale mauve, four petalled flowers.

Boronia crassipes

Priority Three — Poorly Known Taxa (DEC)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Rutaceae
Genus: Boronia
Species:
B. crassipes
Binomial name
Boronia crassipes
Occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium

Description

Boronia crassipes is an erect, spindly shrub that grows to a height of about 0.5–3 m (2–10 ft). It has simple, linear to narrow elliptic leaves 10–15 mm (0.4–0.6 in) long. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on a club-shaped pedicel about 6 mm (0.2 in) long. The four sepals are red, narrow triangular and 2–3 mm (0.08–0.1 in) long. The four petals are pale red or pale mauve, elliptic and about 7 mm (0.3 in) long. The eight stamens are about 2.5 mm (0.1 in) long a have a few soft hairs.[2][3][4]

Taxonomy and naming

Boronia crassipes was first formally described in 1845 by Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling and the description was published in Plantae Preissianae.[5][6] The specific epithet (crassipes) is derived from the Latin words crassus meaning "thick", "fat" or "stout"[7]:237 and pes meaning "a foot".[7]:600

Distribution and habitat

This boronia grows peaty heath, in winter-wet sawamps and along creeklines near Albany in the Jarrah Forest and Warren biogeographic regions.[2][3]

Conservation

Boronia crasspies is classified as "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife[3] meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat.[8]

References
  1. "Boronia crassipes". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  2. Duretto, Marco F.; Wilson, Paul G.; Ladiges, Pauline Y. "Boronia crassifolia". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  3. "Boronia crassipes". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  4. Bentham, George; von Mueller, Ferdinand (1863). Flora Australiensis (Volume 1). London: Lovell Reeve and Co. p. 322. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  5. "Boronia crassipes". APNI. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  6. Bartling, Friedrich Gottlieb (1845). Plantae Presiiianae. Hamburg. p. 168. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  7. Brown, Roland Wilbur (1956). The Composition of Scientific Words. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
  8. "Conservation codes for Western Australian Flora and Fauna" (PDF). Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
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