Boronia amplectens

Boronia amplectens is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is only known from two specimens collected from the Arnhem Land plateau in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is a sprawling shrub with narrow elliptic leaves and four-petalled flowers.

Description

Boronia amplectens is a sprawling shrub that grows to wide. Its branches are covered with star-like hairs. The leaves are narrow elliptic, long and wide with a petiole long. The flowers are usually arranged singly in leaf axils on a pedicel up to long. The four sepals are larger than the petals, long and wide. The four petals are long but increase in length as the fruit develops. Flowering has been observed in March and May and the fruit is a capsule about long and wide.

Taxonomy and naming

Boronia amplectens was first formally described in 1997 by Marco Duretto who published the description in Australian Systematic Botany. The specific epithet is derived from the Latin word amplector meaning "encircle", "enfold" or "embrace".

Distribution and habitat

This boronia is only known from two plants growing on the Arnhem Land plateau in the Northern Territory.