Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Zieria baeuerlenii
Common name
Bomaderry zieria
Family
Rutaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and shrubland, amongst sandstone boulders. Restricted to near Bomaderry Creek, near Nowra.
Notes
Shrub to 0.8 m high, sprawling, proliferating by suckers. Branchlets not warty. Younger branchlets velvety with short stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see) mixed with much longer simple hairs; older branchlets almost hairless. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, compound, with 3 leaflets, the central leaflet 0.6–1.2 cm long, 4.5–9 mm wide, tips notched or rounded with a small notch, margins entire, and curved to rolled down; both surfaces more or less the same colour, and velvety with short stellate hairs mixed with longer simple hairs; secondary veins evident on both surfaces. Flowers white to pink, with 4 petals about 3.2 mm long, and with 4 stamens. Flower clusters longer than the leaves, 3-7 flowered (occasionally more). Flowers autumn to spring.
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=10850 (accessed 8 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Zieria~baeuerlenii (accessed 8 January 2021)
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