Boronia filicifolia

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Family Rutaceae

Taxonomy: Boronia filicifolia A.Cunn. ex Benth.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Boronia gravicocca Duretto (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (9), Crowley_2007 (2), NTH_2022 (2), NTH_2023 (3), Nano_2011 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_1 (3), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_1 (11), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 20 traits from 49 records in 14 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): follicle (1); mericarp (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 35.75 mm (1-75 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_1]
leaf_width (numerical): 5.12 mm (0.5-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_1]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); oblanceolate (1); orbicular (1); rhomboidal (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: WAH_2023_1]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_1]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: WAH_2023_1]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: WAH_2023_1]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_1]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); subshrub (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2); sprawling (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.5 m (0.5-0.5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
WAH_2023_1	7	11	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_2023	7	9	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
NTH_2023	3	3	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_1	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
NTH_2022	2	2	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Nano_2011	2	2	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.