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Boronia pulchella

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Family Rutaceae

Taxonomy: Boronia pulchella Turcz.

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Boronia drummondii Planch. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Boronia drummondii Planch. var. drummondii (taxonomic synonym)
  • Boronia drummondii var. alba Anon. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Boronia pulchella Turcz. var. pulchella (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Boronia pulchella var. alba W.Mill. & N.Taylor (taxonomic synonym)
  • Boronia pulchella var. distans Domin (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (9), Burrows_2008_2 (5), Burrows_2020 (5), Collette_2021 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (1), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_1 (3), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_1 (11), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 26 traits from 61 records in 15 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 11.54 mm (5-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_1; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 0.95 mm (0.8-1 mm) [sources: WAH_2023_1; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2); narrowly_oblong (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_crenate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: WAH_2023_1]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_1; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: WAH_2023_1]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: WAH_2023_1]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_1]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • reproductive_maturity (numerical): 2 a (2-2 a) [sources: Burrows_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.95 m (0.5-1.2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
WAH_2023_1711Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wheeler_2002810J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
ABRS_202369Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Burrows_2008_255N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
Burrows_202055N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
WAH_2022_133Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_202111J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
Sweedman_200611L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.