"Epithet derived from the Latin, amplectens (clasping), alluding to the arched and appressed rays of stellate hairs that appear to be clasping the leaves and stems."

Sprawling shrub to 1 m wide. Branches with sparse to moderately dense stellate indumentum. Stellate hairs with 6–15 rays; rays 0.1–0.5 mm long, appressed. Leaves: petiole 0.5–2.5 mm long; lamina narrowly elliptic, 10–52 mm long, 1–3 mm wide, attenuate to cuneate at base, acute; stellate indumentum sparse, often on midrib and margins only, similar on both surfaces. Peduncle 7–21 mm long; pedicel 2–3 mm long. Perianth white to pink to reddish. Sepals 3–5 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, abaxial surface with sparse to moderately dense stellate indumentum. Petals 3–4 mm long.

Flowers and fruits March and August.

Native.

Known from few collections in the central areas of the Arnhem Land Plateau, Northern Territory.

Grows on sandstone. 

N.T.: S of Magela Falls, K. Brennan 2818 (DNA, MEL); Western Arnhem Land, c. 2 km S of Magella Falls, I.D. Cowie 10305 & C. Brooks (CANB, DNA).

Distinguishable from the other species in the subseries by having the following combination of characters: sparsely hairy, narrowly elliptic leaves, stellate hairs with appressed rays, and long peduncles. Probably most closely related to Boronia zeteticorum.

A.J.G. Wilson (ed.), Flora of Australia 26: 272, fig. 45S–Y (2013).

Duretto, M.F & Ladiges, P.Y. (1997). Morphological variation within the Boronia grandisepala group (Rutaceae) and the description of nine taxa endemic to the Northern Territory. Australian Systematic Botany 10: 249–302.

Duretto, M.F., Wilson, P.G. & Ladiges, P.Y. (2013). Boronia, in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.), Flora of Australia 26: 124–282. (ABRS: Canberra/CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne).

M.F. Duretto, P.G. Wilson & P.Y. Ladiges, Boronia, in A.J.G. Wilson (ed.), Flora of Australia 26: 124–282 (2013).