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| '''''Boronia parviflora''''', commonly known as the '''swamp boronia''', '''small boronia''', '''tiny boronia''', or '''small-flowered boronia''',<ref name="Muelleria">{{cite journal |last1=Duretto |first1=Marco F. |title=Notes on ''Boronia'' (Rutaceae) in eastern and northern Australia |journal=Muelleria |date=2003 |volume=17 |pages=54–58 |url=https://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/documents/Muelleria_17,_p19-135,_Duretto,_Notes_on_Boronia.pdf |accessdate=9 April 2019}}</ref> is a plant in the citrus ] ] and is ] south-eastern |
'''''Boronia parviflora''''', commonly known as the '''swamp boronia''', '''small boronia''', '''tiny boronia''', or '''small-flowered boronia''',<ref name="Muelleria">{{cite journal |last1=Duretto |first1=Marco F. |title=Notes on ''Boronia'' (Rutaceae) in eastern and northern Australia |journal=Muelleria |date=2003 |volume=17 |pages=54–58 |url=https://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/documents/Muelleria_17,_p19-135,_Duretto,_Notes_on_Boronia.pdf |accessdate=9 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 }}</ref> is a plant in the citrus ] ] and is ] south-eastern Australia. It is a weak, low shrub with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with finely toothed edges and up to three pink, white or green four-]led flowers arranged at or near the ends of the stems. | ||
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| ''Boronia parviflora'' was first formally described in 1798 by ] and the description was published in his book ''Tracts relating to natural |
''Boronia parviflora'' was first formally described in 1798 by ] and the description was published in his book ''Tracts relating to natural history''.<ref name=APNI>{{cite web|title=''Boronia parviflora''|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/465989|publisher=APNI|accessdate=9 April 2019}}</ref> Smith gave it the common name "pale-flowered boronia".<ref name="Sm.">{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=James Edward |title=Tracts relating to natural history |date=1798 |location=London |pages=295–296 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/193842#page/325/mode/1up |accessdate=10 April 2019}}</ref> The ] (''parviflora'') is derived from the ] ''parvus'' meaning "small" and ''-florus'' meaning "-flowered".<ref name="Sharr">{{cite book |author=]|title=Western Australian Plant Names and their Meanings |date=2019 |publisher=Four Gables Press |location=Kardinya, Western Australia |isbn=9780958034180 |page=271}}</ref> | ||
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Species of plant
| Swamp boronia | |
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| Boronia parviflora near Shoal Bay | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Rutaceae |
| Genus: | Boronia |
| Species: | B. parviflora |
| Binomial name | |
| Boronia parviflora Sm. | |
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| Occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium | |
Boronia parviflora, commonly known as the swamp boronia, small boronia, tiny boronia, or small-flowered boronia, is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is endemic south-eastern Australia. It is a weak, low shrub with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with finely toothed edges and up to three pink, white or green four-petalled flowers arranged at or near the ends of the stems.
Description
Boronia parviflora is a weak, low shrub that grows to a height of 0.1–1 m (0.3–3 ft) and has glabrous branchlets. The leaves are simple, sessile, elliptic to egg-shaped, 7–26 mm (0.28–1.02 in) long and 1.5–6.5 mm (0.059–0.256 in) wide with fine teeth along the edges. The leaves are sometimes reddish or purplish, especially on the lower side. The flowers are arranged singly or in groups of up to three in the upper leaf axils or on the ends of the branches, on a pedicel 2–11 mm (0.079–0.433 in) long. The four sepals are more or less triangular, green or red, glabrous and 2.5–6 mm (0.098–0.236 in) long. The four petals are pale to bright pink, white or sometimes green, about the same length as the sepals and have their bases overlapping. The stamens are hairy and the stigma is minute. There are eight stamens in the flowers of plants in Queensland, New South Wales and Tasmania but sometimes only four or six in those of western Victoria and South Australia. Flowering mainly occurs from August to March. The fruit is a glabrous capsule 2–4 mm (0.079–0.157 in) long and 1.5–2.5 mm (0.059–0.098 in) wide.
Taxonomy and naming
Boronia parviflora was first formally described in 1798 by James Edward Smith and the description was published in his book Tracts relating to natural history. Smith gave it the common name "pale-flowered boronia". The specific epithet (parviflora) is derived from the Latin parvus meaning "small" and -florus meaning "-flowered".
Distribution and habitat
Swamp boronia grows in seasonally wet areas of heath, woodland, sedge and wallum. It is the most widely distributed boronia and is found in near-coastal areas south from the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, through New South Wales as far inland as Boonoo Boonoo, in Tasmania and in scattered locations in southern Victoria, and south-eastern South Australia.
Conservation
This boronia is classified as "very restricted" in South Australia. The main threats to the species in that state are grazing, trampling and competition from introduced pasture species.
References
- "Boronia parviflora". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ^ Duretto, Marco F. (2003). "Notes on Boronia (Rutaceae) in eastern and northern Australia" (PDF). Muelleria. 17: 54–58. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 April 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
- Duretto, Marco F. "Boronia parviflora". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
- Weston, Peter H.; Duretto, Marco F. "Boronia parviflora". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ^ Duretto, Marco F.; Wilson, Paul G.; Ladiges, Pauline Y. "Boraonia parviflora". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- "Boronia parviflora". APNI. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
- Smith, James Edward (1798). Tracts relating to natural history. London. pp. 295–296. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- Francis Aubie Sharr (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and their Meanings. Kardinya, Western Australia: Four Gables Press. p. 271. ISBN 9780958034180.
- "Boronia parviflora" (PDF). Government of South Australia Department for Environment and Heritage. Retrieved 10 April 2019.