Cyanothamnus inflexus
Cyanothamnus inflexus is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is endemic to tablelands near the New South Wales - Queensland border in Australia. It is an erect, woody shrub with pinnate leaves and up to seven white to pink four-petalled flowers in the leaf axils. "Boronia bipinnata" is similar but has larger, bipinnate or tripinnate leaves and smaller sepals and petals. Description. "Cyanothamnus inflexus" is an erect, woody shrub that grows to a height of about and a width of about . The leaves are pinnate, long and wide in outline on a petiole long. The end  leaflet is linear, long and wide, the side leaflets similar or longer. Up to three, sometimes up to seven white to pink flowers are arranged on a stalk long. The four sepals are triangular, mostly glabrous, long and wide. The four petals are long, sometimes with a few hairs. The eight stamens are hairy and the stigma is about the same width as the style. Flowering occurs from June to December and the fruit are long and wide. Taxonomy and naming. This species was first formally described in 2003 by Marco F. Duretto and the description was published in the  journal "Muelleria" from a specimen collected in the Girraween National Park. In a 2013 paper in the journal "Taxon", Marco Duretto and others changed the name to "Cyanothamnus inflexus" on the basis of cladistic analysis. The specific epithet ("inflexus") is a Latin word referring to the edges of the sepals, near their tip. In the same 2003 paper, Duretto described four new subspecies. The names have subsequently been changed to reflect the change in the genus name: Distribution and habitat. "Cyanothamnus inflexus" grows in heath, woodland and forest on granite and in soils derived from granite. Subspecies "inflexus" occurs between  Stanthorpe and the Girraween National Park and disjunctly in the Gibraltar Range National Park and subspecies on a small hill near Applethorpe north of Stanthorpe. Subspecies "grandiflorus" occurs near Amiens and Lyra and subspecies "torringtonensis" is restricted to the Torrington area in New South Wales. Conservation. "Cyanothamnus inflexus" subsp. "montiazureus" (as "Boronia inflexa" subsp. "montiazura" is classed as "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.