Boronia prolixa is a species of plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is endemic to a small area in the Northern Territory, Australia. It is a low-lying shrub with hairy branches, leaves and flower parts, simple leaves and white to pink flowers with the sepals longer and wider than the petals.
Boronia prolixa is a low-lying shrub that typically has branches to about 50sigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 long. Its branches, leaves and some flower parts are covered with star-like hairs. The leaves are lance-shaped to egg-shaped, NaNsigfig=2NaNsigfig=2 long, NaNsigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 wide and sessile or on a petiole up to 2sigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 long. The flowers have a pedicel NaNsigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 long. The sepals are white to pink, egg-shaped to triangular, NaNsigfig=2NaNsigfig=2 long and NaNsigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 wide. The petals are NaNsigfig=2NaNsigfig=2 long and NaNsigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 wide. The sepals and petals enlarge as the fruit develops. Flowering occurs mainly from February to June.[1] [2]
Boronia prolixa was first formally described in 1997 by Marco F. Duretto who published the description in Australian Systematic Botany.[3] The specific epithet (prolixa) is a Latin word meaning "stretched out" or "long".[4]
Boronia prolixa grows in sandstone heath and woodland on the north-western Arnhem Plateau.