Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Zieria buxijugum
Common name
Box Range zieria
Family
Rutaceae
Where found
Shrubland in dry forest on a rocky outcrop. West of Pambula.
Notes
Shrub to 3.5 m high. Stems warty and 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 1–3 cm long, 1.5–4 mm wide, slightly longer than the lateral leaflets, tips blunt, margins entire, and curved down; both surfaces warty and velvety, lower surface paler, and with denser hairs. Flowers white, with 4 petals each 3.5–4 mm long, and with 4 stamens. Flower clusters as long as, or longer than the leaves, 10–28-flowered. Flowers July-September.
Endangered Australia. Critically 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.
Sensitive Species list NSW.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10851 (accessed 8 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Zieria~buxijugum (accessed 8 January 2021)
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