Citation: Benth., Fl. Aust. 1:305 (1863).

Synonymy: Boronia veronicea F. Muell., Trans. Phil. Soc. Vic. 1:11 (1854).

Common name: Pink zieria.

Description:
Small lemon-scented shrub to 0.6 m high; branchlets velutinous with a dense stellate indumentum; older branches glabrescent, lenticellate with wrinkled to corky bark; leaves 1-foliolate, opposite, rarely 3 in a whorl, sessile or on extremely short pubescent petioles to 0.7 mm long; lamina oblong to ovate, 5.2-15.7 x 1-5.5 mm, discolorous, velutinous on both surfaces but more densely so on the undersurface; margin entire, recurved to revolute; apex obtuse.

Inflorescence 1-3-flowered, generally not exceeding the leaves; peduncle 0.4-14 mm long, densely stellate-hairy; bracts persistent, either scale-like and minute or distinctly foliaceous, 1.3-6.5 mm long; calyx lobes acute, densely stellate-hairy; petals 2.3-7 mm long, pale-pink or very occasionally white; filaments generally pubescent with simple and stellate hairs towards the middle of the filament, occasionally pubescent throughout; anthers slightly apiculate; ovary and style stellate-pubescent or glabrous; stigma 0.3-0.5 mm broad.

Cocci velutinous with a dense stellate indumentum, with a small terminal appendage (stylar remnant); seeds c. 3 mm long, striate, black with white waxy material in furrows.

Distribution:    Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — Nov.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: A point of distinction is the strong often pungent lemon smell of crushed leaves.

Taxonomic notes: Kangaroo Island plants differ from mainland populations in having the ovary and style glabrous and these constitute a distinct subspecies which will be described as such in a forthcoming revision (Armstrong in prep.).

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