Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Zieria caducibracteata

Common name

Large-bracted Zieria

Family

Rutaceae

Where found

Forest. Coast and ranges north of the Kings Highway.

Notes

Tree or shrub to 6 m high. Young stems cylindrical, sometimes with longitudinal ridges, hairy with stellate and simple hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), becoming hairless, dotted with oil glands but not warty. Leaves with an unpleasant smell when rubbed, opposite each other, compound, with 3 leaflets, the central leaflet 3.2–12 cm long 3–19 mm wide, tips pointed (rounded in the Colo River gorge population); margins entire, upper surface hairless to hairy, lower surface paler, hairy with coarse, rough, longish hairs, to velvety predominantly with stellate hairs. Flowers white or pink, 9-15 mm in diameter, with 4 petals each 4-5 mm long, and with 4 stamens. Flower clusters shorter than the leaves, to 420 flowered, enclosed in a pair of bracts 8–12 mm long that fall early. Flowers late Autumn to Spring.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Zieria~caducibracteata (accessed 12 February, 2021)