Boronia spathulata is a plant in the citrus family, Rutaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a glabrous shrub with well-spaced, simple, egg-shaped to elliptic leaves, and pink, four-petalled flowers.
Boronia spathulata is a glabrous shrub that grows to a height of about and has well-spaced, narrow elliptic to broadly egg-shaped leaves that are NaNsigfig=2NaNsigfig=2 long. Leaves near the ends of the branchlets are usually more or less cylindrical. The flowers are arranged in cymes that have a short peduncle, the individual flowers on a red pedicel that has small bracts at its base. The side flowers have a pedicel NaNsigfig=2NaNsigfig=2 long. There are four triangular to egg-shaped sepals NaNsigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 long and four pink, egg-shaped petals NaNsigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 long. The eight stamens are hairy with a small white tip on the anther and the stigma is only slightly larger than the style. Flowers are present in most months.[1]
Boronia spathulata was first formally described in 1839 by John Lindley and the description was published in A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony.[2] [3] The specific epithet (spathulata) is derived from the Latin word spathe meaning "any broad blade, paddle for stirring and mixing".[4]
This boronia grows in sand near swamps or rivers and in jarrah forest. It occurs between Perth and Augusta and east to Israelite Bay.[5]
Boronia spathulata is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.