Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Zieria covenyi

Common name

Coveny's zieria

Family

Rutaceae

Where found

Open forest and woodland. Blue Mountains south west of Katoomba.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high, only proliferating from root suckers. Produces no seed. Stems stellate-hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), becoming hairless. Leaves strongly aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, compound, with 3 leaflets, the central leaflet 2.3–4 cm long, 5–11 mm wide, tips blunt to rounded, margins entire, and curved to rolled down; both surfaces stellate-hairy, upper surface dark green and dotted with oil glands, lower surface grey-green. Flowers white to pale pink, with 4 petals each  about 6 mm long, and with 4 stamens. Flower clusters usually about as long as the leaves, 3–21-flowered. Flowering: spring-summer.

Endangered Australia. Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

NSW Threatened Species profile:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10853 (accessed 8 January 2021)

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Zieria~covenyi  (accessed 8 January 2021)