Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Zieria compacta

Flowering stems. Photographer Jackie Miles

Flowering branch. Photographer Jackie Miles

Common name

A zieria

Family

Rutaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, shrubland, rocky areas, and gullies. Coast and ranges.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high. Stems dotted with oil glands, hairy with predominantly stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), and with simple and 2-armed hairs, becoming hairless. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, compound, with 3 leaflets, the central leaflet 0.6–3.5 cm long, 1.5–10 mm wide, tips pointed to blunt, and mucronate; margins slightly curved down; upper surface dark green, dotted with oil glands, and mostly hairless; lower surface pale green to whitish, shortly stellate-tomentose with scattered longer simple hairs, particularly along the midvein. Flowers white to pale pink, with 4 petals each 3.5–5 mm long, and with 4 stamens. Flower clusters shorter or longer than the leaves, 3–35-flowered. Flowering: Aug.–Oct.

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