Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Zieria cytisoides
Common name
Downy zieria
Family
Rutaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, heath, rocky areas, and along streams. Coast, ranges, tablelands, and the ACT.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m high. Stems velvety with stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), and not warty. Leaves often somewhat grapefruit-scented when rubbed, opposite each other, compound, with 3 leaflets, each 0.6–4.2 cm long, 2.5–17 mm wide, tips pointed to more or less rounded, margins entire, and more or less flat; both surfaces velvety, upper surface dark green, lower surface grey-green. Flowers deep to pale pink, occasionally white, with 4 petals each 3.5–6 mm long, and with 4 stamens. Flower clusters shorter than to longer than the leaves, 3–30-flowered. Bracts surrounding the flower bud clusters 8–10 mm long, remaining after the flowers open. Flowers winter and spring.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Zieria~cytisoides (accessed 12 February, 2021)
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