Boronia [section Boronella] series Boronella (Baill.) Duretto & Heslewood, comb. nov.

Boronella Baill., Adansonia 10: 302 (1872).

Type: Boronella pancheri Baill. [≡ Boronia pancheri (Baill.) Duretto & Bayly].

Branches glabrous apart from a dense indumentum of simple hairs in leaf axils and at base of inflorescence. Leaves verticillate in whorls of 3, sometimes also opposite– decussate on some plants. Inflorescence a simple terminal cluster (pseudo-umbel), bracts and bracteoles absent or possibly minute and obscured by hairs at base of pedicels. Petals imbricate in bud.

A series of at least four species confined to Grande Terre, New Caledonia: Boronia hartleyi, B. pancheri, B. parvifolia, B. sp. S’ern Grande Terre (McPherson 3961) (phrase name used at the National Herbarium of NSW; T. G. Hartley, unpubl. data; M. F. Duretto, pers. obs.).