Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Zieria formosa
Common name
Shapely zieria
Family
Rutaceae
Where found
Shrubland/heath on a rocky slope inland from Pambula.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high. Stems glandular warty, and stellate-hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Older stems less warty and becoming hairless. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, compound, with 3 leaflets, the central leaflet 1–3.7 cm long, 2–6 mm wide, tips more or less blunt, margins more or less toothed, and strongly curved down; upper surface warty, stellate-hairy, and light green; lower surface sparsely warty, stellate-velvety, and paler. Flowers pale pink to almost white, 6-9 mm in diameter, with 4 petals and 4 stamens. Flower clusters slightly longer than the leaves, 26-45-flowered. Bracts surrounding the flower bud clusters 1.5–6 mm long, remaining after the flowers open. Flowering: spring.
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=10855 (accessed 8 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Zieria~formosa (accessed 8 January 2021)
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