Boronia stricta

Boronia stricta is a plant in the citrus family, Rutaceae and is endemic to near-coastal areas of the south-west of Western Australia. It is a slender shrub with often crowded pinnate leaves with linear leaflets, and pink, four-petalled flowers borne singly or in groups of two or three in leaf axils.

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Boronia stricta
Boronia stricta growing in Walpole
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Rutaceae
Genus: Boronia
Species:
B. stricta
Binomial name
Boronia stricta
Occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium

Description

Boronia stricta is a slender shrub that grows to a height of 2 m (6 ft 7 in) with long soft hairs. The leaves are pinnate with between five and nine leaflets and 10–20 mm (0.39–0.79 in) long, the leaflets linear to almost cylindrical and up to 15 mm (0.59 in) long. A single or two or three pink flowers are borne in leaf axils, each flower on a hairy pedicel 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) long. The four sepals are narrow triangular, 3–7 mm (0.12–0.28 in) long and hairy. The four petals are broadly elliptic, 5–9 mm (0.20–0.35 in) long and pink with a dark midline. The eight stamens are about 2 mm (0.079 in) long with the four stamens nearer the sepals swollen with a warty tip. The style is club-shaped. Flowering mainly occurs from September to December.[2][3]

Taxonomy and naming

Boronia stricta was first formally described in 1845 by Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling and the description was published in Plantae Preissianae.[4][5] The specific epithet (stricta) is a Latin word meaning "straight", "erect" or "rigid".[6][7][8]

Distribution and habitat

Boronia stricta grows in swampy areas between Margaret River, the Stirling Ranges and Albany in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Warren biogeographic regions.[2][3]

Conservation

Boronia stricta is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.[3]

References
  1. "Boronia stricta". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  2. Duretto, Marco F.; Wilson, Paul G.; Ladiges, Pauline Y. "Boronia stricta". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  3. "Boronia stricta". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  4. "Boronia stricta". APNI. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  5. Lehmann, Johann Georg Christian (ed.); Bartling, Friedrich Gottlieb (1845). Plantae Preissianae (Volume 1, Part 2). Hamburg. p. 169. Retrieved 4 May 2019.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  6. Brown, Roland Wilbur (1956). The Composition of Scientific Words. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 760.
  7. Francis Aubie Sharr (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and their Meanings. Kardinya, Western Australia: Four Gables Press. p. 315. ISBN 9780958034180.
  8. Short, Emma; George, Alex (2013). A Primer of Botanical Latin with Vocabulary. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. p. 262. ISBN 9781107693753.
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