Boronia safrolifera
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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|name = Safrole boronia
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|image_caption = Boronia safrolifera in Maranoa Gardens
|taxon = Boronia safrolifera
|authority = Cheel{{cite web|title=Boronia safrolifera|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/61135|publisher=Australian Plant Census|accessdate=29 April 2019}}
|range_map = Boronia safrolifera DistMap108.png
|range_map_caption = Occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium
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Boronia safrolifera, commonly known as safrole boronia, is a species of flowering plant that is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect, woody shrub with pinnate leaves that have up to nineteen leaflets, and white to pink, four-petalled flowers.
Description
Boronia safrolifera is an erect, woody shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|0.5-2.5|m}} with mostly hairless branches. The leaves are pinnate with mostly between seven and nineteen leaflets and {{cvt|12-47|mm}} long and {{cvt|14-35|mm}} wide in outline on a petiole {{cvt|3-11|mm}} long. The end leaflet is elliptic to narrow egg-shaped, mostly {{cvt|2.5-7|mm}} long and {{cvt|1-2|mm}} wide and the side leaflets are similar but longer. The lower side of the leaflet is a paler shade of green. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils and on the ends of branchlets in groups of between three and twelve on a peduncle {{cvt|1-20|mm}} long, the individual flowers on a pedicel {{cvt|2-4|mm}} long. The four sepals are triangular, {{cvt|1-1.5|mm}} long and hairless. The four petals are white to pale pink, {{cvt|4.5-7|mm}} long with a few soft hairs. The eight stamens are usually hairy and the stigma is about the same width as the style. Flowering mainly occurs from August to October and the fruit is a mostly hairless capsule {{cvt|3-4.5|mm}} long and {{cvt|2-2.5|mm}} wide.{{cite web |last1=Weston |first1=Peter H. |last2=Duretto |first2=Marco f. |title=Boronia safrolifera |url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Boronia~safrolifera |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |accessdate=29 April 2019}}{{cite web |last1=Duretto |first1=Marco F. |last2=Wilson |first2=Paul G. |last3=Ladiges |first3=Pauline Y. |title=Boronia safrolifera |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Boronia%20safrolifera |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra |accessdate=29 April 2019}}{{cite journal |last1=Duretto |first1=Marco F. |title=Notes on Boronia (Rutaceae) in eastern and northern Australia |journal=Muelleria |date=2003 |volume=17 |pages=71–73 |url=https://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/documents/Muelleria_17,_p19-135,_Duretto,_Notes_on_Boronia.pdf |accessdate=29 April 2019 |archive-date=6 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200406123353/https://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/documents/Muelleria_17,_p19-135,_Duretto,_Notes_on_Boronia.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |last1=Holland |first1=Alisa |last2=Mayhew |first2=Mellisa |title=Safrole boronia - Boronia safrolifera |url=https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/components/species/?boronia-safrolifera |publisher=Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science |accessdate=29 April 2019}}
Taxonomy and naming
Boronia safrolifera was first formally described in 1924 by Edwin Cheel and the description was published in Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales.{{cite web|title=Boronia safrolifera|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/466488|publisher=APNI|accessdate=19 April 2019}}{{cite journal |last1=Cheel |first1=Edwin |title=Notes on Boronia in the Pinnatae section, with a description of a new species. |journal=Journal and Procceding of the Royal Society of New South Wales |date=1924 |volume=58 |pages=146–147 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/174132#page/178/mode/1up |accessdate=29 April 2019}} The specific epithet (safrolifera) refers to the odour of the volatile oil safrole apparently released from the crushed leaves of this plant. The ending -fera is a Latin suffix meaning "to carry" or "to bear".{{cite web |title=Boronia safrolifera |url=http://anpsa.org.au/b-saf.html |publisher=Australian Native Plants Society (Australia) |accessdate=29 April 2019}}{{cite book|last1=Brown|first1=Roland Wilbur|title=The Composition of Scientific Words|date=1956|publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press|location=Washington, D.C.|page=187}}
Distribution and habitat
Safrole boronia grows around the margins of swamps in near-coastal areas of New South Wales north from Port Stephens to Bribie Island in south-eastern Queensland.
References
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External links
- {{cite web |title=Boronia safrolifera Cheel |work=Atlas of Living Australia |url=https://bie.ala.org.au/species/http://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2902870}}
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Category:Flora of New South Wales