Boronia zeteticorum is a species of small, semi-prostrate shrub that is endemic to a restricted part of the Northern Territory. It has hairy branches, leaves and flower parts, simple leaves and white flowers with the sepals longer and wider than the petals.
Boronia zeteticorum is a semi-prostrate shrub with many branches and that typically grows to about long. Its branches, leaves and some flower parts are covered with sessile, star-like hairs. The leaves are simple, elliptic, long and wide on a petiole about 1sigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 long. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on a hairy pedicel about long with prophylls about long. The sepals are white, hairy, egg-shaped to triangular, long, about wide and longer and wider than the petals. The petals are white, long and wide. The sepals and petals enlarge as the fruit develops. Flowering has been observed in March and the fruit is a hairy capsule about long and wide.[1] [2]
Boronia zeteticorum was first formally described in 2008 by Marco F. Duretto who published the description in the journal The Beagle: occasional papers of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences.[3] The specific epithet (zeteticorum) is derived from the ancient Greek word Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: ζητητῐκός meaning 'disposed to search'.
This boronia is only known from the type specimens that were collected "in sandstone country" in the Nabarlek area.[4]