Boronia galbraithiae
Boronia galbraithiae, commonly known as the aniseed boronia or Galbraith's boronia, is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is endemic to a small area in Victoria. It is an erect, woody, fennel-scented, hairless shrub with pinnate leaves and white to deep pink, four-petalled flowers arranged in groups in the leaf axils.
Description
Boronia galbraithiae is an erect, woody, fennel-scented shrub with glabrous, four-angled branches and that grows to a height of about. It has pinnate leaves that are long and wide in outline on a petiole long with between seven and seventeen leaflets. The leaflets are lance-shaped to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, mostly long and wide. The flowers are white to deep pink and are arranged in groups of mostly between three and five in leaf axils on a pedicel long. The four sepals are egg-shaped to triangular, long and wide and glabrous. The four petals are long, wide. The eight stamens are hairy and the style is about the same width as the stigma. Flowering occurs in spring and the fruit is a glabrous capsule about long.This boronia is similar to B. microphylla but differs in having glabrous branches.