Boronia parviflora

A low growing shrub to a height of 1 metre with hairless branchlets.

It occurs naturally in coastal and near-coastal areas with disjunct populations scattered along the east coast, from the north in Fraser Island Qld, down to around Grafton in NSW, then with a gap to South-West Rocks, then around Taree through to Sydney, extending to Katoomba-area, with a disjunction to Wollongong and Jervis Bay. Interestingly, plants are found again in north-eastern Victoria very close to the border with NSW, extending along the Victorian coast to South Australia, and also growing commonly in Tasmania.

It is found in shrubby swamps and wet heath, mainly on boggy sands.

Boronia spp. produce opposite leaves which can be simple or compound (sometimes on the same plant) and are usually aromatic (sometimes strongly-so).
In this species, the leaves are simple (or uni-foliolate), elliptic to ovate, to 30 mm long and to 7 mm wide with fine teeth along the edges, with the lower side of the leaf often having red tones.

Boronia have complete flowers (bisexual and with all whorls present). The flowers are produced either solitarily or in groups, in the leaf axils, or, at the branch terminals. There are usually four sepals, four petals and generally eight stamens, surrounding one female part (carpel). Flowers are often pink to purple, which makes them easily identifiable in NSW bushland.

In this species, the flowers are arranged singly or in groups of up to three in the upper leaf axils, bright to pale pink, occurring from August to March. Flowers are generally of a small size. Interestingly, it is reported that flowers have eight stamens in plants found in Queensland, New South Wales and Tasmania but sometimes only four or six in those of western Victoria and South Australia.

The fruit of Boronia are described as a schizocarp-capsule; a capsule that splits into even segments, which each segment called a coccus.

The fruit is to 4 mm long and to 3 mm wide.