Boronia squamipetala is a species of plant in the citrus family, Rutaceae, and is endemic to Queensland, Australia. It is an erect shrub with pinnate leaves with between five and thirteen elliptic leaflets, and green to white, four-petalled flowers with hairy backs.
Boronia squamipetala is an erect shrub which grows to a height of with branches that are more or less square in cross-section and have star-like hairs. The leaves are pinnate with between five and thirteen elliptic leaflets and long and wide in outline on a petiole long. The end leaflet is long and wide and the side leaflets are long and wide. The flowers are borne on a peduncle long, individual flowers on a pedicel long. The four sepals are egg-shaped to triangular, about long, wide with hairy backs and enlarge as the fruit develops. The four petals are green to white, long and wide but enlarge as the fruit develops and have hairy backs. The eight stamens alternate in length with those nearer the sepals longer than those near the petals. Flowering occurs from May to October and the fruit is a glabrous capsule long and wide.[1] [2]
Boronia squamipetala was first formally described in 1999 by Marco F. Duretto and the description was published in the journal Austrobaileya.[3] [4] The specific epithet (squamipetala) refers to "the scaly appearance of the petals when viewed at low magnification".
This boronia grows in woodland, forest and heath on the Cape York Peninsula, mainly on the Iron and McIlwraith Ranges.
Boronia squamipetala is classed as "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.[5]